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Let’s change the rigged tax code so The Person of the Year will actually pay taxes and stop freeloading off everyone else.
While is going to pay around 12 bilion dollar worth of taxes over 2021.
He also said it is the largest tax payment an US individual has ever done.
The filings he has made with the Securities and Exchange Commission about his recent stock trades back up that massive number. +
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America’s leadership class is increasingly older, with many politicians seeking election well beyond the time that most retire. But what if the concern over a longtime politician’s age has less to do with fear that the candidate might die or become incapacitated — and more to do with whether trying to snag yet another term at an age when almost everyone else is retired is just plain arrogant and greedy?
Iowa’s Senator Chuck Grassley makes a good test of that question — a test that merits attention from elected officials across this geriatric-run country..
Unlike Senate colleagues such as California Democrat Dianne Feinstein, Grassley has never been trailed by reports that he’s losing his marbles. Unlike a whole slew of other senators — including much younger pols like 50-year-old New Mexico Democrat Ben Ray Luján, who suffered a stroke — he hasn’t missed significant chunks of time due to serious health issues. His ad touts his best-in-the-Senate attendance record.
And yet a poll published this week that has shocked political pros in the state suggests voters have serious qualms about Grassley’s age. The survey, by the veteran Iowa polling firm Selzer & Co., reported that Grassley was running only 3 points ahead of his Democratic challenger, Mike Franken. Iowa’s Republican governor, meanwhile, was leading her race by 17 points, according to the survey, conducted with the Des Moines Register.
Despite months of Grassley-the-pushup-pro messaging, some 60 percent of respondents, including more than a third of Republicans, told pollsters that they thought age was a concern.
The question that ought to occupy the minds of people like the incumbent president of the United States (who turns 80 this fall), his most likely 2024 challenger (now 76), the Democratic triumvirate atop the House of Representatives (82, 83 and 82) and maybe the entire Senate (the oldest in American history) is: What kind of concern? If nobody is challenging the notion that Grassley is physically and mentally up to the job, shouldn’t everything be fine?
Not for everybody.
From NYT:
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/14/us/politics/youth-voters-midterms-polling.html
Alexandra Chadwick went to the polls in 2020 with the single goal of ousting Donald J. Trump. A 22-year-old first-time voter, she saw Joseph R. Biden Jr. as more of a safeguard than an inspiring political figure, someone who could stave off threats to abortion access, gun control and climate policy.
Two years later, as the Supreme Court has eroded federal protections on all three, Ms. Chadwick now sees President Biden and other Democratic leaders as lacking both the imagination and willpower to fight back. She points to a generational gap — one she once overlooked but now seems cavernous.
“How are you going to accurately lead your country if your mind is still stuck 50, 60 or 70 years ago?” Ms. Chadwick, a customer service representative in Rialto, Calif., said of the many septuagenarian leaders at the helm of her party. “It’s not the same, and people aren’t the same, and your old ideas aren’t going to work as well anymore.”
Al Franken, are you worried your senate colleagues will not take you seriously because you're a comedian?
This is proven to be not true because his colleagues are really clowns. +
This is a crazy situation where Amazon's Terms of Service contain a conditional requirement based on an impossible event: a Zombie attack. What does this do the users understanding and trust that AWS has any credibility in any of its Terms of Service.
Details here : https://medium.com/liecatcher/item-42-10-amazon-web-services-terms-of-service-a9227d19de67
42.10. Acceptable Use; Safety-Critical Systems. Your use of the Lumberyard Materials must comply with the AWS Acceptable Use Policy. The Lumberyard Materials are not intended for use with life-critical or safety-critical systems, such as use in operation of medical equipment, automated transportation systems, autonomous vehicles, aircraft or air traffic control, nuclear facilities, manned spacecraft, or military use in connection with live combat. However, this restriction will not apply in the event of the occurrence (certified by the United States Centers for Disease Control or successor body) of a widespread viral infection transmitted via bites or contact with bodily fluids that causes human corpses to reanimate and seek to consume living human flesh, blood, brain or nerve tissue and is likely to result in the fall of organized civilization. +
The EU has forced apple to use USB type c on their next devices. This will allow people to use one cable to charge all their new devices, but apple isn't happy with this. Greg Joswiak said this mandatory standard hinders innovation. +
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Tries to convince people with a false and stupid claim +
Corona virus cases have dropped, but the reason is probably not due to President Biden's policies. As the omicron variant runs its course, virtually every country in the world has recently experienced a steep decline in COVID-19 deaths. In fact, since the day of Biden’s inauguration, the seven-day rolling average of daily deaths per 100,000 residents worldwide has dropped 89.4%, which suggests Biden’s policy is not somehow unique. Experts say it is the disease, the emergence of variants, the rollout of vaccines and immunity gained from prior infection that are primarily responsible for the peaks and valleys in the number of deaths worldwide since COVID-19 emerged.
Biden also launched this talking point during a lull in COVID-19 deaths, glossing over the fact that there have been two major waves of COVID-19 — from the highly transmissible delta and omicron variants — which caused large spikes in the number of deaths during Biden’s presidency.
Upon taking office in January 2021, Biden initiated an effort to encourage Americans to get one of the newly authorized COVID-19 vaccines. He has promoted effective new treatments, and he has been a consistent advocate for masking in appropriate situations. Experts say those are all positive things, but Biden takes too much credit when he says his policies are responsible for a 90% drop in COVID-19 deaths, as he has done repeatedly.
“My approach has brought down COVID deaths by 90%,” Biden boasted on Twitter on June 14.
Biden repeated it in a speech the same day, saying the administration “brought down COVID deaths by 90%.”
“The vaccines, treatments and other tools my administration has made widely available are protecting the American people from serious illness, keeping them out of the hospital, and bringing down daily deaths due to COVID-19 by 90%,” Biden said on June 17. +
In his State of The Union Address, Biden, speaking about his Infrastructure Bill, said: “The single biggest investment in history was a bipartisan effort.”
—The fact is, it wasn’t that historic. The bill was big, adding $550 billion in fresh spending on roads, bridges, and broadband Internet over five years. But measured as a proportion of the U.S. economy, it is slightly below the 1.36% of the nation’s gross domestic product that was spent on infrastructure, on average, during the first four years of the New Deal, according to an analysis by the Brookings Institution. It is even further below the roughly 2% spent on infrastructure in the late 1970s and early 1980s.
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/ap-fact-check-bidens-claims-in-his-state-of-union-address
—Whatever Biden’s or Buttigieg’s lip-service to climate goals, this money to DOTs is likely to go in large part to expanding capacity in ways that ramp up driving nationwide,” says Jeff Speck, author of the book Walkable City. It does not further climate goals.
https://www.governing.com/now/the-infrastructure-bill-may-not-be-so-historic-after-all
—Historians, economists and engineers interviewed by The Associated Press welcomed Biden’s efforts. But they stressed that $1 trillion was not nearly enough to overcome the government’s failure for decades to maintain and upgrade the country’s infrastructure. The politics essentially forced a trade-off in terms of potential impact not just on the climate but on the ability to outpace the rest of the world this century and remain the dominant economic power.
https://fortune.com/2021/11/15/historians-economists-joe-biden-1-trillion-infrastructure-bill-big-deal-not-transformational/ +
The concern about eponymous and honorific common bird names is not new. But the movement to see these names changed is.
Eponyms (a person after whom a discovery, invention, place, etc., is named or thought to be named) and honorific common bird names (a name given to something in honor of a person) are problematic because they perpetuate colonialism and the racism associated with it. The names that these birds currently have—for example, Bachman’s Sparrow—represent and remember people (mainly white men) who often have objectively horrible pasts and do not uphold the morals and standards the bird community should memorialize.
The vast majority of eponymous common names were applied to birds by European and American naturalists during a period of time known as colonialism, when (primarily) European countries subjugated, exploited, and populated territories held by non-white peoples. To legitimize this endeavor, the concept of race as a classification system was developed, and the white “race” and civilization were considered superior to all others. The impacts of colonialism were global, and the false concept of race used to justify colonialism resulted in the reality of racism, a reality which has structured societies, interactions, and even survival ever since.
Eponymous common names are essentially verbal statues. They were made to honor the benefactor in perpetuity, and as such reflect the accomplishments and values that the creator esteemed. We are not bound by either the intention or the regard; we should make decisions about who and what we honor based on our own values, values that create a more equitable world for all. By continuing to use eponymous common bird names, we continue to reference and honor our distressful colonial heritage and the racism that was a direct consequence of this malicious exploitation. This is unacceptable, and we must do better.
Current events in 2020 renewed societal emphasis on social justice and have shown that the time to reevaluate is now, and are largely why this initiative formalized. We are overdue individually, as groups and communities, and as a society to reevaluate our biases, remove barriers of all kinds, and be better.
Bird Names For Birds—both the initiative and the actual bird names—will not end racism. It won’t even end all of the EDI problems within the bird community. However, it is one step. It is one problem that the bird community can be self-aware of, acknowledge, and rectify.
A growing movement to reexamine names bestowed on everything from college campuses to city streets has swelled to encompass birders, ornithologists, and conservationists. Doing away with honorifics, they say, and renaming birds for the qualities that make each special, could make the birding world more inclusive for those who have long been left out or pushed away. Once unthinkable, the scientific body that governs bird names is finally embarking on a process that could redefine not only what we call myriad birds but also birding itself.
About 150 of the roughly 2,000 North and Central American bird species have honorifics. Most were named for naturalists, such as Alexander Wilson, a chronicler of birdlife during the early 19th century and widely considered the father of American ornithology. The handful of names that commemorate women mostly use first names; Anna’s Hummingbird is a tribute to French courtier Anna Masséna, wife of an amateur ornithologist. While these figures don’t stir up much controversy, other species are saddled with heavier burdens.
Audubon’s Shearwater and Audubon’s Oriole honor renowned avian artist John James Audubon (also the namesake of this magazine), an enslaver who collected skulls from Texas battlefields during his travels. His contemporary John Kirk Townsend plundered Native American graves; his legacy lives on with Townsend’s Warbler and Townsend’s Solitaire. Scott’s Oriole carries a banner for General Winfield Scott, who willingly accepted a leading role in the genocide of Native Americans on the Trail of Tears.
The Farmer says it is OK to not reveal everything and to keep the cows happy while he is raising them by what he does and does not do. +
The Crow tries to tell Bull why he is factually lying to himself. Bull thinks Crow is lying but in fact Bull is factually lying to himself.
The evidence is self-evident by anyone with any experience with raising Cattle. +
The Crow is trying to convince the Bull that the Farmer does not tell the whole truth of his situation to the Bull. He provides a series of arguments that the Bull needs to believe to run away from the farmer before the farmer slaughters him. +
The Crow is trying to convince the Bull that the Farmer does not tell the whole truth of his situation to the Bull. He provides a series of arguments that the Bull needs to believe to run away from the farmer before the farmer slaughters him. These truthful arguments are the evidence...and we all know the crow is telling the truth. +
This is a lie of self-deception that the Bull has that the Farmer has not told him the whole truth. The Crow is trying to tell him the whole truth but he is not believing it. +
Crow Says .Farmer Lies to Bull +
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I think this was a lie. Indeed, it is a mix of lies and truth by
the way the opinion piece was written to back the truth of the title.
The actual ratings in 2020 were the best ever while 2021 was lower and the
second half still lower, but they fired the top producer Cuomo then.
My suspicion was that Zucker...the guy who made Trump by giving him the "Apprentice"
job, and who probably manipulated the 'attacks' on Trump in CNN (with Cuomo)
was actually a Trumpist Their opinion was less credible and left Zucker as
an anti-Trumpist and incompetent.
https://thehill.com/opinion/campaign/592969-cnns-collapse-is-now-complete
The actual ad ratings that fell 90% happened just recently but only for prime time (it is still the 3rd best cable channel .. and has been that solidly). And,
they fired their top producer (by far) in the second half.
The title in any even is a big lie. No matter what.
https://www.adweek.com/tvnewser/2021-ratings-cnn-has-its-2nd-most-watched-year-ever-but-sees-sharp-declines-in-2nd-half/496930/
https://www.adweek.com/tvnewser/2020-ratings-cnn-averages-most-viewers-in-its-40-year-existence-and-ends-year-by-dominating-in-demo/466472/
CNN will also close out 2021 as one of the five-most-watched networks in all of cable in all dayparts. In Total Day, the network ranks No. 3 in total day and No. 5 in primetime. CNN was also among the 10-most-watched cable networks in 2021 among adults 25-54, coming in at No. 5 in Total Day and No. 9 in primetime.
Overall, CNN averaged 1,078,000 total viewers in prime time, 268,000 adults 25-54 in prime time, 773,000 total viewers across the 24-hour day and 185,000 adults 25-54 across the 24-hour in 2021.
What do these figures look like compared to its final 2020 ratings? Well, CNN fell -40% in total prime time viewers, -48% in the prime time demo (adults 25-54), -32% in total viewers across the 24-hour day and -40% among adults 25-54 across the 24-hour day.
TheHill.com
CNN's collapse is now complete
BY JOE CONCHA, OPINION CONTRIBUTOR — 02/06/22 11:00 AM EST 3,817THE VIEWS EXPRESSED BY CONTRIBUTORS ARE THEIR OWN AND NOT THE VIEW OF THE HILL
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It all began 42 years ago — Ted Turner's creation of a 24/7 news network that would exist on something called cable TV. Few believed it could succeed.
And, for its first decade, CNN largely chugged along but wasn't seen as a game-changer or a true competitor to big broadcast news entities based in New York in the form of CBS, NBC and ABC. That all changed when war broke out between the United States and Iraq in 1991.
On the night war exploded over Baghdad, CNN was the only news organization that was able to broadcast from the city under siege as the U.S. onslaught began, all courtesy of the CNN team’s ability to convince the Iraqi government to grant them a line out of the city to broadcast, one that the competition could not secure.
"How CNN Won the War" was the glowing headline from The Washington Post on a story that perfectly chronicled the events that led to CNN officially becoming a major player. And off it went.
Until 2002, CNN was No. 1 in the cable news race. But competition that hadn't existed before ended its dominance forever, primarily in the form of Fox News and, to a lesser extent, MSNBC. Despite the ratings results, CNN continued to carry itself as a credible, facts-first network of integrity that leaned heavily on solid reporting with a sprinkling of opinion and infotainment mixed in via programs such as "Larry King Live" and "Crossfire."
In 2013, the network hired former NBC Universal President Jeff Zucker to take the reins as ratings continued to be below average at best. This gave Zucker a mandate to radically change the network from its journalistic roots of more than three decades — the months-long wall-to-wall coverage of a missing Malaysian airliner being an early example.
But two years later, the move to insert heavy doses of partisan opinion into its news reports only accelerated when former President Trump — a Zucker hire at NBC for "The Apprentice" — jumped in to the 2016 presidential race. At first, CNN bear-hugged Trump's every move. (Hillary Clinton's giving a speech somewhere? Screw it. Let's show an empty Trump podium with chyrons stating "Trump to speak soon" instead.) The real estate mogul's 17 Republican challengers never had a shot; Trump blotted out the sun in terms of media coverage on his way to winning the nomination.
At that point, Zucker and CNN began to worry. Because while it was a ratings boon for the network to make Trump the centerpiece, there was growing concern that the guy could actually beat Hillary and become the nation's 45th president. So Zucker unleashed the hounds, but it was too late. Trump would go on to shock the world in November 2016.
Undeterred, CNN decided there would be no honeymoon period for the new president. Talk about Russian collusion handing Trump the White House began even before the inauguration. And after the nonstop Trump-bashing, Harvard University concluded that CNN led the way, along with Zucker's former home of NBC, in giving Trump 93 percent negative coverage in his first 100 days.
For the next four years, CNN served as the leading media resistance to Trump, throwing objectivity out the window. And after President Biden got elected, the network cheered the new president as it had throughout the entire campaign while still making Trump a prime centerpiece for over-the-top negative coverage despite his being out of office.
But as much as CNN tried to resurrect its lead character — who was banned from social media and largely off the grid for the year — his absence clearly showed the network was a one-trick partisan pony. Ratings fell 90 percent overall when comparing January 2021 to January 2022. That’s hard to do.
Which brings us to the events of this week: Zucker released a statement saying he had to resign because of a consensual affair with an executive named Allison Gollust. WarnerMedia apparently has a rule against this, so Zucker — instead of a slap on the wrist for a benign offense — simply had to go abruptly.
Nobody believed this excuse. Turns out they may have had plenty of reason to be skeptical.
Per several reports, Zucker and Gollust allegedly advised then-New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D) – the older brother of then-CNN anchor Chris Cuomo — on what to say during his COVID-19 daily briefings in the spring of 2020. They also reportedly told Cuomo how to respond to and how to criticize Trump, to make it more compelling TV. (Gollust is a former communications director for Andrew Cuomo.)
Let's unpack all of this:
In the spring of 2020, the country was in a horrific place. Businesses shut completely; people were scared. There were no COVID-19 therapeutics, no vaccines. Hospitals were overwhelmed, thousands were dying each day. If ever there was a time for news organizations to educate and inform the public, this was it.
Instead, Zucker apparently believed it was the perfect time to exploit the situation for political gain and to help the network's ratings.
Andrew Cuomo benefited from briefings that made him appear to be the adult in the room regarding COVID-19 and Trump appear to be the villain. Cuomo got a $5.1 million book deal as a result.
Chris Cuomo and Zucker/Gollust/CNN benefited from marathon interviews with Cuomo's governor/brother, which didn't touch the governor's alleged nursing home scandal. Ratings soared.
So, was Zucker's departure simply about a consensual relationship with a co-worker? One might be forgiven for questioning that.
Moving forward, what's next for CNN when the company falls under the Discovery Channel umbrella later this year? Let's hear from its soon-to-be largest shareholder, John Malone of Liberty Media.
"I would like to see CNN evolve back to the kind of journalism that it started with, and actually have journalists, which would be unique and refreshing," Malone said in an interview that recently aired on CNBC.
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The collapse of CNN is now complete: 9 out of 10 viewers, gone. Its top-rated anchor, Chris Cuomo, gone. Its network president, gone. Its integrity in shambles.
Climate Change Is A Lie
How and why labeling our crisis as “change” has cost us time.
I would argue this title is not true. "Climate Change" is not a lie. It is
literally, correctly, and for what it communicates, completely true and there
is no deception in fact or motivation by the people who use the phrase.
I do not she is lying about lying, she is simply wrong.
Here is her argument:
Change is inevitable, this was not.
I read the article and she makes the case, but it was extremely disappointing
that she didn't actually offer a new phrase for "climate change". Just some
descriptors (thundersnow? .. etc). I don't think she read the definitive book on the subject...
The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming
By: David Wallace-Wells
I really really wish she had not wasted my time without a good suggestion.
Perhaps
Earth Death?
Earth Murder?
Planet Death?
Planet Murder?
Climate Murder?
Climate Poisoning?
I dunno.
Here is her case for saying ...
Climate change, by that name is a lie.
The now obvious global threat, was most often referred to as “The greenhouse effect” through the first half of the twentieth century.
Although Svante Arrhenius discovered the phenomena in 1896, he variously called it “climate fluctuations, climate warming, greenhouse warming,” and even “dangerous warming.”
By the time he was completing his body of work, Arrhenius had come to believe that the additional carbon dioxide in the atmosphere could very well be positive. Additional warming by adding the emissions could possibly avert the next ice age and mellow out the frozen north.
Let’s not forget that Arrhenius lived in Sweden, and the multi-factorial details of slight changes making enormous challenges, feedback loops, and more, were little known. One would think that given the modest amount of warming by greenhouse gases prior to the 20th century might make a long, Scandinavian winter, and a more productive green summer, a welcome benefit.
Time has shown that hoping for a milder climate is not the change we got.
Power of influence
When Arrhenius won the Nobel prize in 1903, it was not for his all-important discovery of the carbon warming effect. Carbon dioxide? Who knew, why care?
His awarded Nobel was for chemistry, and cross-over sciences of physics, which was more novel, studied, and widely influential in their own time.
Nevertheless, carbon rise in the mid-century of the 1960’s and 1970’s alarmed many observers. Pollution wasn’t very welcome, dependency on fossil fuels for national security wasn’t welcome, and a whole host of voices arose decrying obvious greenhouse warming. Population size and consumption had grown considerably.
It was about this time that fossil fuel giants, and their political allies, first began to realize they had better shape public opinion in their favor. They launched a disinformation campaign and spent billions on it.
James Hansen testified to congress about Climate in 1988, and as the Bush years unrolled, so did new terminology which suggested, the phrase “climate change” should be used to “emphasize the scientific uncertainty” of the new research.
This was notably the position of the Republicans at the time, who overwhelmingly were polled to discover that belief in “climate change” was much higher than “climate warming, or global warming,” and a whole lot less threatening, especially to lobbyists.
“We lost decades of opportunity,” reported geophysicist Michael Mann. The last three decades, have indeed been crucial in stepping up to the challenges we see now.
It was advisor Frank Luntz who notoriously warned that the new label should stick because on the topic of environmental concerns, and the prospect of global heating, the Bush administration was “most vulnerable in their stance.”
The publication Grist declared that Luntz is a “founding father of climate denial.”
Tennessee Senator Marsha Blackburn said of nominee Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson that “You have made clear that you believe judges must consider critical race theory when deciding how to sentence criminal defendants.”
Blackburn was referring to a 2015 speech in which Jackson described how she encouraged students to study federal sentencing policy as an academic area implicating many topics.
“Sentencing is just plain interesting on an intellectual level, in part because it melds together myriad types of law — criminal law, of course, but also administrative law, constitutional law, critical race theory, negotiations, and to some extent, even contracts,” Jackson said in her speech. “And if that’s not enough to prove to them that sentencing is a subject ... worth studying, I point out that sentencing policy implicates and intersects with various other intellectual disciplines as well, including philosophy, psychology, history, statistics, economics, and politics.”
In other words, she indicates that critical race theory might be one of many potential factors in play in sentencing, not a mandatory consideration. +
https://doctorow.medium.com/what-is-chokepoint-capitalism-b885c4cb2719
This is an exchange from a short medium article by the
famous author Cory Doctrinow on his subject called Chokepoint
Capitalism. This is just a version of the evils of trusts and
monopolies.
This one is special because I thought a paragraph was a lie, I
wrote a response to his lie, Cory responded with why it was not a lie, and I
responded on why he was wrong, thus proving he was in fact,
intentionally lying.
Speaking of chokepoints…
The audiobook market is controlled by one company, Audible, a division of Amazon. In some genres, Audible has more than 90 percent of the market. If you’re an audiobook listener, you almost certainly have an Audible subscription, which means that anyone who wants to sell an audiobook needs to be on Audible.
But Audible has a rule: to sell in its marketplace, you have to let Audible wrap your audiobook in “Digital Rights Management” — an encryption scheme that can only be legally decrypted using the apps and devices that Audible has authorized.
That means that every dollar a listener spends on an audiobook is a dollar they’ll have to give up if they quit Audible, because there’s no (legal) way to convert Audible books so they’ll work on non-Audible players.
The more Audible dominates the audiobook market, the worse they treat creators. Professional narrators’ wages have been steadily squeezed, as have payments to the independent studios that produce audiobooks. The self-published audiobook creators who use Audible’s ACX platform report hundreds of millions of dollars in wage-theft.
Naturally, we won’t sell our audiobook with DRM, so naturally, it won’t be available on Audible.
Instead, we’re kickstarting pre-sales of the audiobook (along with print and ebooks). We’re currently at about $75,000, with 25 days to go. So far, our readers have pre-ordered about 1,500 DRM-free ebooks, 1,175 DRM-free audiobooks, and 650 hardcovers. They’ve also donated about 700 hardcover copies to libraries (if you work at a library and want to call dibs on one of those donated copies, fill in this form!).
This is the LIE:
That means that every dollar a listener spends on an audiobook is a dollar they’ll have to give up if they quit Audible, because there’s no (legal) way to convert Audible books so they’ll work on non-Audible players.
My comment to him:
I must be goofy but this is misleading, I think. For example, if you narrate a book yourself or hire a narrator and get the raw audio files, you can put the book on audible (DRMed) and ALSO distribute DRM free, or use another DRM distributor/seller. I don't recall an exclusive distribution provision by Audible of the performance content or a grant of copyright to them. Similarly for kindle.
That said, collecting pre-orders on non-DRMed material seems like a good idea if you can get the kickstarter community to want them. But once it's out without DRM, what exactly stops the pirates? At one time in history, the content providers did not have to worry about pirates, but then came bit-torrent (and others).
That said, you make a great argument about the failure of the government in its anti-trust responsibilities and the FTC/FCC in theirs. Under the US Constitution I believe it would be legal, and expected, to have a public enforcement agency for copyrighted and patented material. Big companies can afford their own enforcers, but not individuals or little guys. No such agency exists. The FBI LITERALLY LAUGHS IN YOUR FACE when you try to report the crime to them.
His comment back to me:
Cory Doctorow
Cory Doctorow
AUTHOR
about 20 hours ago
Yes, you can sell elsewhere, but how do you get your listeners non-DRM copies if you leave Audible and want to take them with you? Audible won't tell you who bought your book through its service, much less help you deliver MP3 versions to them so they can resign from Audible without losing your books.
My comment back to him, saying he is wrong:
Robert Thibadeau
Robert Thibadeau
YOU
about 5 hours ago
What Cory wants is the sales contact list from his reseller or a willingness of his reseller to sell the form of the release that he wants. As they say, "you can ask" but I've never seen any reseller agree to reselling something they don't want to resell.
I actually know the DRM that Audible uses (when I was designing the Self-Encrypting Drive technology for Seagate Technology). It is pretty sophisticated and contains many features that are very consumer oriented in terms of meta data markup associated with the Audible releases. Anybody who prepares an audible book for Audible can see some of this. i.e., Audible is adding content performance value with the DRM and they are in part a performance contributor of consumer value to what they are willing to sell. It's like a band performer saying he want to sing all his songs without a microphone to an audience of 10,000 people. The distributor (event producer) can say no.
Again, we need an enforcement division of the Gov. for Copyright and Patent Infringement. Copyright and Patent law already provides for protection but without any enforcers. This is like writing criminal law without any police or Justice Dept. That is what we have in Copyright and Patent Law.
Cory does not seem to want this. Probably because a lot of lawyers make their living as paid enforcers and do not care about writers and inventors who have no money to pay them their $400-1200/hr fees. And, Cory does not want to address this. Yet we do have law (National and Local) that DOES cover misdemeamor enforcement. What do you think police do? Let the CONGRESS correct this with a written responsiblity to the Dept. of Justice. As would be expected by any RIGHT that has supposedly been guaranteed and protected in the Constitution.
I would argue even further. That certain forms of DIVISIVE PERNICIOUS LYING even by Candidates for Office should be illegal and enforced under the Constitution. Slander is slander. We don't let certifiably insane people do anything they want to do. George Washington made exactly this point in his Farewell Address to us, before we had laws, just the Constitution. Read it here:
https://medium.com/liecatcher/hobgoblins-are-not-real-43d7a749067e
Cory's Bio:
Cory Doctorow (craphound.com) is a science fiction author, activist, and blogger. He has a podcast, a newsletter, a Twitter feed, a Mastodon feed, and a Tumblr feed. He was born in Canada, became a British citizen and now lives in Burbank, California. His latest nonfiction book is How to Destroy Surveillance Capitalism. His latest novel for adults is Attack Surface. His latest short story collection is Radicalized. His latest picture book is Poesy the Monster Slayer. His latest YA novel is Pirate Cinema. His latest graphic novel is In Real Life. His forthcoming books include The Shakedown (with Rebecca Giblin), a book about artistic labor market and excessive buyer power; Red Team Blues, a noir thriller about cryptocurrency, corruption and money-laundering (Tor, 2023); and The Lost Cause, a utopian post-GND novel about truth and reconciliation with white nationalist militias (Tor, 2023).
Senator Ted Cruz of Texas has continually put forward a lie—that we don’t need gun control in the US. Now he is spreading a lie about that lie! He says the best way to avoid school shooting is to make schools more like prisons or military facilities, to “harden” them. The general idea, apparently, is that if a school has one point of entry, and that doorway is well guarded, a gunman might have greater difficulty killing people inside. Who needs gun control, the argument goes, when all we really need is door control.
There are a variety of reasons this is a difficult idea to take seriously.
First, I’m reasonably sure this would be a serious fire hazard in many school buildings nationwide.
Second, a lot of schools have windows.
Third, what about schools made up of several buildings, with students walking outdoors between them. Mandating “one door that goes in and out of the school” would be literally impossible.
Fourth, mass shootings don’t just happen in schools — and I’m not sure having one entry point to a grocery store is realistic.
Finally, there’s also reason to be skeptical of the underlying point. Juliette Kayyem, a veteran of the Obama administration’s Department of Homeland Security, and currently a lecturer in international security at Harvard, wrote on Twitter, “The ‘one door’ theory of schools is not how we think about education or design, but it’s also not how we think about security. It actually is bad safety planning. A ‘psychopath’ would then just target the kids backed up in line and waiting for this ‘one door’ to let them through.”
Or put another way, those looking at Cruz’s idea as a credible policy proposal are almost certainly making a mistake.
https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/latest-school-shooting-ted-cruz-focuses-doors-rcna30630
URL: https://www.salon.com/2022/05/26/ted-cruz-thinks-he-has-a-better-solution-to-uvalde-school-than-control-door-control/ +
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This is a the truth to anyone from left or right but a lie to the other from the right or left in the context of who is speaking it.
#2A Wisdom
@2AWisdom
God grants liberty only to those who love it, and are always ready to guard and defend it. - Daniel Webster
I believe Webster spoke or wrote it, and it doesn't matter what context he was coming from since it would only reinforce the accusation either way. +
On Transgender Athletes Debate
David Wharton, latimes.com, tweeted the following on Jun 20, regarding an article the LA Times published on transgender athletic issues (As Title IX turns 50, it plays a surprise role in transgender athlete access debate):
"The 1st thing you should know: Lots of people on both sides of the #transgender athlete argument are passionate & sincere. Not just politics, but real concern for the sports they love & for human dignity. @feliceduffy"
https://twitter.com/LATimesWharton/status/1538923817979981824
Solomon Georgio tweeted the following response
"Both sides my ass. This is a direct attack on trans women and an insult to all women. It is indirectly saying that trans women are men and men are better athletes than women. There is a right and wrong side to this debate and it’s not the transphobic one."
https://twitter.com/solomongeorgio/status/1538982308794859520
I think the Georgio tweet is dishonest on it's face and attempts to present a false dilemma.
1) Wharton doesn't explicitly reference trans women athletes in his tweet (although they are prominent in his published LA Times article); 2) Wharton's article attempts to present both sides - it is not "a direct attack on trans women and an insult to all women."; 3) There are separate men's and women's sporting competitions because men and women are physically different and in many sports male size, muscle mass and strength are advantageous. This is not valuing male athletic achievement over female athletic achievement but recognizing the physical factors that contribute to athletic performance, which in many instances give men and advantage over women in heads-to-head competition. To explicitly discuss these differences is not transphobic, in my opinion. One can support transgender identity and equal protection under the law on the one hand, but not necessarily support transgender athletes as "equivalent" when it comes to athletic competition. +
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There is a popular narrative making the rounds that theUS government's stimulus aid to Americans during the height pandemic had big economic benefits — but it also fueled inflation. How do we know that government aid isn’t the reason the economy’s tanking now? Just by looking around the world, and observing. If it were the case that stimulus led to inflation, then of course countries with the greatest support would have the highest inflation. But that’s not true. Europe, which offered people way, way more support than America and the UK, has lower inflation rates. And plenty of countries which offered people no support — because they’re poor nations — have skyrocketing inflation rates.
It’s not about stimulus.
This isn’t demand-led inflation. When people subscribe to this naive pop myth that “printing money during the pandemic caused inflation,” what are they really saying? That the economy’s cratering right now because people have too much money. LOL. Do you know anyone who has too much money? That’s an absurd thing to say.
This is supply side inflation: for example, tampons and baby formula at the moment.
Why? One reason is Covid — it caused labour shortages across sectors from healthcare to transportation. But the bigger picture here is about climate change and resource depletion. And the failure of industrialized capitalism, which is extractive, Exploitative. Rent-seeking. It doesn’t nourish, create, care, give birth to, just manufactures lowest-common-denominator stuff and literally turn life into death: plastic, fossil fuels, forests ripped down, oceans polluted, skies full of carbon, rivers turned to poison. They take without giving,
As the resources of the planet dwindle, in anticipation, warlords and oligarchs start conflicts to try and seize what of them they can. +
Let’s change the rigged tax code so The Person of the Year will actually pay taxes and stop freeloading off everyone else.
While is going to pay around 12 bilion dollar worth of taxes over 2021.
He also said it is the largest tax payment an US individual has ever done. +
Let’s change the rigged tax code so The Person of the Year will actually pay taxes and stop freeloading off everyone else.
While he is paying around 12 bilion dollar worth of taxes over 2021.
He also said it is the largest tax payment an US individual has ever done. +
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CNN recently featured this headline: "Eat farm-to(-your-kitchen)-table because it’s good for you and the earth." “Farm-to-table” – a term that implies food--in America, at least--that is locally sourced and purchased by a restaurant or for your own kitchen table directly from a farmer or producer, has been trending, and its related cuisine has become increasingly popular among foodies who appreciate seasonal fare as well as those concerned with the health of the environment and the local economy. “It’s essentially a way of eating based around food that has been grown and harvested in a sustainable way,” said Kristy Del Coro, a registered dietitian and culinary nutritionist. The term is also used to describe the movement that promotes this way of eating. Farmers' Market shopping is a mainstay of the practice.
While this seems to be on its face an obviously true statement, the truth is more nuanced. Yes, it's good to eat healthy food. But is farm-to-table mostly a marketing gimmick designed to make us feel good about an elitist practice?
One of the supposed positive benefits to farm-to-table is that food sourced this way is more flavorful and more nutritious. Yes, produce and other foods that have been picked ripe and haven't been shipped thousands of miles probably do have a somewhat better flavor. But as for being more nutritious, even CNN's article admits that this claim hasn’t been scientifically proven. Yes, it would seem that these types of foods might be more nutritious, but the fact is, we just don't know.
Another F-to-T claim is that the practice is more sustainable and better for the environment. I've been to farms that actually supply my local farmer's market, and I can tell you point blank that a good number of them (if not most) are water and fertilizer intensive and mimic agribusiness mega-farms, only on a smaller scale. To be sure, the distances that the crops are shipped is much less, so there is a substantial benefit in that regard. So it the practice better for the environment? Well, yes, but perhaps only marginally.
F-toT is also seen as a way to democratize food consumption by bringing better foods to everyone. This is most likely not true. Farmers' Market food is much more expensive than its grocery-store counterparts. F-toT customers tend to be upscale whites, so in this regard F-toT is an elitist practice.
Finally, F-toT is claimed to benefit the local economy by supporting local agriculture. I suppose this is true, since by definition a local farmer is part of the local economy. But how much of the money that we spend at the farmers' market stays in the local economy? Farmers are buying mostly the same products and services as everyone else, and almost none of these are in any sense of the word "local."
The camelia would bloom in the spring, but it not spring and he is blooming +
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WHEREAS, Representatives Cheney and Kinzinger are participating in a Democrat-led
persecution of ordinary citizens engaged in legitimate political discourse, and they are both
utilizing their past professed political affiliation to mask Democrat abuse of prosecutorial power
for partisan purposes +
Ginni Thomas, the controversial wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, says her activities on behalf of Donald Trump and other conservative causes have no bearing on the work of her husband.
https://www.npr.org/2022/03/14/1086535100/wife-of-justice-thomas-rebuts-claims-of-conflict-of-interest +
50 migrants were found dead from heat exposure after they were left trapped in an abandoned truck in San Antonio, Texas, this week. On 6/27/2022 Texas Gov Greg Abbott tweeted, “These deaths are on Biden. They are a result of his deadly open border policies. They show the deadly consequences of his refusal to enforce the law.”
As University of Texas Rio Grande Valley political science professor Terence Garrett told PolitiFact while responding to Abbott’s previous lies about Biden’s immigration policies, “There's no such thing as an open border.” According to Garrett, current border security measures include nearly 20,000 Border Patrol agents, aerial surveillance systems, and hundreds of miles of fencing. “We don’t have an open border,” Garrett said. “That’s absurd.”
The Washington Post, for example, pointed out that Customs and Border Patrol had made 239,416 arrests in May, further commenting: “The agency is on pace to surpass the record 1.73 million border arrests tallied in 2021 — presenting an ongoing logistical and political challenge for the Biden administration.”
While politicians argue about how to address the flood of immigrant/refugees on the southern border few ever discuss the reasons that these people are fleeing their countries of origin. The economic, political and security threats (including criminal and state-sponsored violence) that are driving this immigration, which has deep roots in Latin America, can often be traced of the exploitative 20th century banana republic practices of US companies and the resulting social and political conflicts aggravated by US foreign policies in the region.
According to Wikipedia, in 1904, the American author O. Henry coined the term banana republic to describe Honduras and neighboring countries under economic exploitation by U.S. corporations, such as the United Fruit Company (now Chiquita Brands International) and Dole. Typically, a banana republic has a society of extremely stratified social classes, usually a large impoverished working class and a ruling class plutocracy, composed of the business, political, and military elites of that society. The ruling class controls the primary sector of the economy by way of the exploitation of labor; thus, the term banana republic is a pejorative descriptor for a servile oligarchy that abets and supports, for kickbacks, the exploitation of large-scale plantation agriculture, especially banana cultivation.
Workers rebelling against these practices often adopted socialist models for redistributing the wealth of state controlled assets and political power, which turned most countries in the regions into proxy state wars between the US and the USSR. The US favored strong-man, anti-communist leaders and trained their ruling elites in suppressive military and police practices, many of which have evolved into the failed social and political structures present today.
So, in my humble opinion, one hundred years afterward the US is reaping what it sowed when it exploited these Central and South American countries. It is a very difficult and complex task to address the economic, social and political problems now festering in these countries today, if the US was seriously inclined to do so. But, in the end, that is really the only way to stem the flow of immigration from those regions to the US southern border.
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"She's always got such a great sense of humor with me and I'm just making sure she's protected and got the right people around her,"
Prince Harry claimed he was checking in on the Queen to make sure she was protected, but in reality Prince Harry dropped in to see his grandmother with wife Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, on the way to the Invictus Games in the Netherlands last week.
The same BBC article says that Prince Harry and Meghan, had not visited the UK together since they stepped back from royal duties in early 2020. If he was really worried about her, he would have seen her earlier, especially given the dangers of the pandemic.
The 37-year-old did not attend a memorial service for his grandfather, the Duke of Edinburgh, in London last month.
He is currently engaged in a legal case against the UK government
over his police protection in the UK.
"Protected" from what?
The short clip from US television doesn't reveal what Prince Harry was "making sure" the Queen was protected from. Problems with her health? Bad advice?
But his comments, following his flying visit to the UK, are likely to raise some eyebrows and maybe even some hackles among those already looking after the Queen in Windsor Castle.
Prince Harry and Meghan made a deal with Netflix in September 2020 to make a range of programs which they said would focus on creating content that, "Informs but also gives hope”.
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-61157345
In other reports, Royal experts have slammed 'delusional' Harry's 'gross insult to William and Charles': Prince tells US TV show that HE’S 'making sure the Queen is protected' despite being 'nowhere to be seen' at Prince Philip's memorial as Palace braces for more comments today.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10734159/Royal-experts-slam-delusional-Prince-Harrys-protecting-Queen-remark.html +
On the Tim Ferris show podcast Balaji made the following statement:
far Left and far right agree that institutions with power are terrible.
His prediction is that we are moving towards a anarchy where police gets defunded and government has less control +
Hoax calls are lies typically using phone or internet media that
threaten violence. This is called swatting.
The question is how to dissect such calls if indeed they do turn out of be lies. Here the motive appears to be
in question. This article suggests a general motive.
They are intended to set off a massive and immediate deployment of armed law enforcement to a specific target, including SWAT teams. The results can be quite dangerous, as they were in a fatal incident in 2017, when police swatted a man in Wichita, Kansas.
A shift from bomb threats to false calls about active shooters may also reflect that bad actors understand how heavily school shootings have come to factor into communities' fears in the U.S.
"The underlying reason that it is effective as a disruption or as an emotional, psychological attack is because we know it could be real," said Amanda Klinger, director of operations for the Educator School Safety Network, a national nonprofit organization that does school safety for primarily K-12 educators. "Our fear of school shootings and school-based violence is being weaponized against us."
The background is given on the NPR page.
False calls about active school shooters are rising. Behind them is a strange pattern
October 7, 20229:49 AM ET
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In response to a false call about an active shooter, police and emergency workers descended on Robert Anderson Middle School in Anderson, South Carolina, on Oct. 5. Parents rushed to pick up their children, causing a traffic jam in front of the school.
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When Emmi Conley first heard in September about a rash of hoax calls reporting active shooters in schools, she dismissed it. Conley, an extremism researcher who studies groups and people behind public displays of violence, said she found no indication that these calls were connected to fringe online spaces where these pranks often originate.
But as the number of these reports swelled over time, Conley said she began to discern some very strange patterns — including the possibility that the calls may have come from overseas, and perhaps specifically from Africa.
"The scale and the timeline of the events is highly, highly unusual," she said. "The calls are consistent. They are coordinated. They are grouped state-by-state and district-by-district, and they're also sustained. So somebody is putting significant effort to keep these going."
As Conley began digging further, more questions emerged. Elements of these calls were notably different than what she has typically seen in school-based threats. Nobody has taken credit for these calls, even as they stretched over several weeks, and the technological planning and research behind the calls betrayed a level of sophistication not typically seen.
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In a statement, the FBI has said it is aware of the incidents, but has "no information to indicate a specific and credible threat."
The agency said it is working with law enforcement at every level to investigate the cases. But some news reports, including in Minnesota and Louisiana, have cited local authorities who said the calls may be originating in Africa or, specifically, Ethiopia. The FBI would not comment on this detail.
For Conley, particulars around these calls suggest that the people or person behind them are, indeed, overseas.
"Our big questions now are whose attention are they after?" she said. "Is it the public? Law enforcement? Media? Something else? And why they're after it?"
Swatting as the new 'bomb threat'
The hoaxes are called "swatting," a term that refers to calls that falsely report an act of violence in progress or about to occur. They are intended to set off a massive and immediate deployment of armed law enforcement to a specific target, including SWAT teams. The results can be quite dangerous, as they were in a fatal incident in 2017, when police swatted a man in Wichita, Kansas.
"It was popularized by extremely online communities with proclivities toward violence and perceived ideological enemies," said Conley. Those have included live-gaming communities and extremist groups, where perpetrators aim to harass specific individuals. The recent targeting of institutions, namely schools, appears to be a new development.
NPR has found, primarily through local news reports, at least 113 instances of hoax calls across 19 states between Sept. 13 and Oct. 5. Louisiana, Minnesota and Virginia tallied the greatest number. This is likely an undercount, as many locations may not have garnered media attention. School safety experts worry that these hoaxes could inspire copycats, putting school communities and law enforcement officers at significant risk.
"You know, for decades, those of us in the school safety world have dealt with false bomb threats," said Mo Canady, executive director for the non-profit organization National Association of School Resource Officers (NASRO). "If we get a call that someone is actively shooting, injuring, killing people, that's a whole different matter. That requires really an all-out response."
Canady said swatting presents a higher set of risks than bomb threats. In Ohio, one father was reportedly detained for arriving at Licking Valley High School with a gun after hearing that there may be an active shooter at that location. That response from a parent is understandable, said Canady, particularly as the horror of a school massacre in Uvalde remains fresh in many parents' minds. But, he notes, it could lead to confusion and worse at the scene.
A shift from bomb threats to false calls about active shooters may also reflect that bad actors understand how heavily school shootings have come to factor into communities' fears in the U.S.
"The underlying reason that it is effective as a disruption or as an emotional, psychological attack is because we know it could be real," said Amanda Klinger, director of operations for the Educator School Safety Network, a national nonprofit organization that does school safety for primarily K-12 educators. "Our fear of school shootings and school-based violence is being weaponized against us."
'A connection to overseas'
In audio obtained by NPR of some calls in Ohio and one call in Minnesota, the person reporting an active shooting breathes heavily and follows a nearly identical narrative. He identifies himself as a student at the school, although he sounds like an adult male. He also speaks with a heavy accent. NPR also requested call records from locations in other states, but many were denied on the basis that the incidents are under investigation.
Drew Evans, superintendent at the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension, said he has also heard audio of hoax calls that were placed in states other than Ohio and Minnesota. He said they sounded very similar.
"There was an accent here and it appeared to be a similar person or the same person in all the calls either heard or reported in to us," Evans said. The MBCA is investigating 17 swatting calls that occurred Sept. 21 in Minnesota.
Evans said that the calls in his state were all made directly to schools or to non-emergency dispatch lines, rather than to 911. He said they appeared to be coming from Internet-based phone numbers, which either originated in or were routed through foreign countries through a VPN connection.
"There's indications that there's a connection to overseas," he said. "What we don't know is whether or not overseas could have been used as a mask."
Conley said the possibility that the calls came from a foreign individual or entity may be bolstered by details that the caller provided that are atypical of school shootings in the U.S. For example, the particular model of gun the caller referenced as the weapon was often different from what is commonly used in school shootings.
"America has a very particular relationship with guns," she said. "The the cultural object of the mass shooting in the United States is the AR-15."
But both Conley and Evans noted this campaign indicates a tremendous level of detailed local knowledge or research.
"Whoever is doing this has managed to make phone calls relating to specific schools, reach the correct dispatchers, and give specific information about local school districts and threats within them without being caught," Conley said. "You couldn't do that without some considerable effort and investigation into knowing where you're targeting, how you're targeting it and how you were avoiding detection."
An earlier wave
Some are considering the possibility that the person or group behind the calls is building on prior experience. In the spring, schools in several states reported receiving false calls about bomb threats. In Minnesota, the MBCA confirmed that nine schools were targeted. Evans said there were similarities between how those calls were placed, and the more recent wave of false active shooter reports.
"There [were similarities] in terms of the specificity in which they were calling in the particular threat, it appeared to be one individual that was making the calls, and they certainly seemed to be one individual that was a live person," he said. Evans said that those calls, as with the calls in September, were also made to non-emergency lines.
"Some of the schools believe there's a potential they could be connected," he said.
NPR identified at least six states where schools received bomb threats starting in mid-March and mostly concentrated through April. Minnesota, North Carolina, Maine, Louisiana and Hawaii each saw multiple hoax calls on a single day.
In Louisiana, where at least five schools received false calls about bomb threats on April 21, one local report said that investigators had linked the IP address of the caller to Ethiopia. More recently, a report from Minnesota cited Alexandria Police Chief Scott Kent saying that he believed the calls made in September to schools in his state were linked to an IP address in Ethiopia. Kent did not respond to interview requests.
Evans said the investigation into the April calls to Minnesota schools remains open.
The difficulty of discerning a motive
Whether the source of these hoaxes is domestic or foreign, one perplexing question remains the same: Why?
"I would find myself wondering, especially if it's coming from another country, is someone potentially trying to test our systems to see how we respond to those types of events?" said Canady.
NASRO recently issued guidance to schools on handling swatting calls. Chief among it, said Canady, is to continue to operate under the assumption that each call is a real threat.
"If we hesitate, it can cost lives," he said. "So unfortunately, we have to continue to proceed in an emergency manner... until we know for a fact that it's not a real incident."
But there's also concern that if the dramatic uptick in swatting sustains or continues to rise, that emergency response itself can create trauma. Klinger said even hoaxes can create fearful situations that exact a psychological and emotional toll upon students, educators and parents. She said she would like to see more federal guidance on how to keep school communities safe, but still nurturing.
"If I continue to just shut down the schools, shut down the school, shut down the school... how does it end? How do you ever stop it?" she said.
Without a clear ideological aim behind these calls, or any known organization, the effort may not clearly qualify as terrorism under the FBI's definition of the term. But many note that its effect may be the same.
"There's a significant amount of intentionality based on the information that's been reported," said Evans. "They were doing this with a purpose to cause fear in our communities."
The intelligence 'experts' who falsely discredited Hunter Biden's laptop -- and still won't say sorry.
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2020/10/giuliani-and-the-new-york-post-are-pushing-russian-disinformation-its-a-big-test-for-the-media/ Mother Jones
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Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter. A newly discovered laptop, the FBI, a trove of emails, October, a presidential election—it sounds familiar. Especially when you add in a Russian disinformation campaign. On Wednesday, the New York Post released what it hailed as a bombshell: an unidentified computer repair store owner in Delaware had come to possess a laptop that contained Hunter Biden emails (and purportedly a sex tape), the hard drive and computer was seized by the FBI, the store owner at some point passed a copy of the hard drive to Rudy Giuliani, and one of the emails suggested that Hunter, who served on the board of Ukrainian energy company Burisma, may have in 2015 introduced a Burisma official to his dad, Vice President Joe Biden. The story depicts this as a big scandal, and Guiliani tweeted, “Much more to come.”
But the key point of the article was predicated on false information that Giuliani
has been spreading for a long time—and that appears to be linked to a Russian disinformation operation that the Post neglected to note in its article. That is, the Post piece, based on an unproven smear, is in sync with Moscow’s ongoing effort to influence the 2020 election to help President Donald Trump retain power. (The FBI and other parts of the US intelligence community have stated that Vladimir Putin is once again attacking the US political system to boost Trump.)
And this story presents a challenge to the American media: how to report on an orchestrated campaign to affect the election that relies on disinformation, salacious and sensational material, and the revival of allegations that have already been debunked.
Coca Cola advertises their plastic bottles as if they are helping the environment. But they are one of the biggest plastic polluters in the entire world.
Besides this they say their bottles are 100% recycled plastic while the caps and the labels aren't.
It is hypocritical to say they are helping the environment when they know the impact of their actions is zero to none.
https://www.breakfreefromplastic.org/globalbrandauditreport2020/
https://www.cocacolanederland.nl/promoties-en-campagnes/campagnes/recycle-me +
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According to the probabilistic Drake Equation (see below), advanced intelligent life has probably developed many times in the universe. For example, if the odds of an advanced civilization developing on a habitable planet are one in a trillion, then at least 10 billion such civilizations should have occurred.
We are left with a quandary. To restate the Fermi Paradox, where are they? Why have we not encountered them?
Researchers at NASA's JPL have written a paper (in the peer review process) that states that such civilizations have most likely been "filtered" out, the result of five factors: 1) Diseases/pandemics; 2) Wars (probably nuclear); 3) Depletion of resources/self-induced climate change; 4) Natural catastrophe, i.e., astroids or volcanoes; 5) Destruction by rogue Artificial Intelligence.
The researchers call this phenomenon the Great Filter, and claim that the odds of surviving long enough to communicate with others are astonishingly small. What's more, given the vastness of the cosmos, even if a civilization did survive the Great Filter, the likelihood of an encounter between us and them practically nil.
Please refer to the articles and the researchers' paper, below:
1) https://www.huffpost.com/entry/great-filter-theory-intelligent-life-extinction-nasa_n_636fee4ce4b0ca9acf253784
2) https://exoplanets.nasa.gov/news/1350/are-we-alone-in-the-universe-revisiting-the-drake-equation/
3) https://arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/2210/2210.10582.pdf
4) Here is a discussion about the Drake Equation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drake_equation
5) N =R∗ ×fp ×ne ×fl ×fi ×fc ×L. (1)
• N is the number of currently active, communicative civilizations in our galaxy.
• R∗ is the rate at which stars form in our galaxy.
• fp is the fraction of stars with planets.
• ne is the number of planets that can potentially host life, per star that has planets.
• fl is the fraction of the above that actually do develop life of any kind.
• fi is the fraction of the above that develop intelligent life.
• fc is the fraction of the above that develop the capacity for interstellar communication.
• L is the length of time that such communicative civilizations are active.
Note that “fraction of the above” means that all the previous conditions have been satisfied. For example, when we consider fc we assume that intelligent life has already developed.
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Janet Yellen on Crypto
April 7, 2022 at American University’s Kogod School of Business Center for Innovation.
https://home.treasury.gov/news/press-releases/jy0706
https://www.forbes.com/sites/danrunkevicius/2022/04/15/national-security-yellen-let-slip-her-plan-to-regulate-crypto-as-the-price-of-bitcoin-ethereum-bnb-xrp-solana-cardano-and-dogecoin-sink/?sh=267b48e6ad75
Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen gave her first speech about cryptocurrencies and their regulation. While her address had an unexpected pro-crypto undertone, Yellen called for a tougher regulatory stance.
"Proponents believe distributed ledger technology will transform other aspects of financial services like trading, borrowing, and lending. They point to capabilities, like smart contracts, which use computer code to automatically execute an agreement if certain prespecified conditions are met. To the extent that setup is more convenient, and costs are competitive with those required for traditional financial services, digital assets offer the potential to expand access."
“Consumers should be protected from fraud regardless of whether assets are stored on a balance sheet or distributed ledger…. Money-laundering and other illicit activity should be deemed illegal, and it doesn’t matter whether you’re using checks, wires or cryptocurrency,” she said.
The Digital Dollar
For much of the past century, the dollar enjoyed the benefits of the world’s reserve currency. And Yellen stressed that retaining this privilege should be regulators’ priority in their approach to digital assets.
Yellen believes, that while the government should push for financial innovation that ensures “competitiveness and growth,” it should also pursue its “national security interests.”
She suggested that a central bank-issued digital currency (CBDC) could fulfill the need for a digital currency while retaining America’s reserve currency privilege.
"... a CBDC could be the next evolution in our currency. A recent report by the Federal Reserve opened a public dialogue about CBDCs and the potential benefits and risks that could be associated with issuing one in the U.S."
Later she made an explicit remark that clarified her stance on the decentralized vs. centralized currency debate: "Sovereign money is the core of a well-functioning financial system," she said.
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https://www.mauiaccommodations.com/blog/15-things-not-maui/
Travel Lies are lies about living in different locations you can travel
to. This Maui Accomodations Guide contains such lies warning about
things NOT to do on Maui.
15 Things NOT To Do on Maui
To quote,
THINGS YOU SHOULDN’T DO ON MAUI
things you shouldn't do on Maui: stand up paddlers on the ocean
Photo Courtesy of Garrett Hacking, PhotographyG.com
1. Don’t rent a stand up paddle (SUP) board and blithely head out to sea. . . unless you are experienced with SUP. Or unless you want to make an unscheduled ocean excursion to Tahiti. By yourself. On just that little board. SUP is loads of fun, but get some training before hitting the waves. You’ll enjoy it more if you learn how to do it right, and you’ll be much safer with a little instruction under your belt (or swimsuit). When it comes to ocean sports like SUP, ignorance is not bliss. Ignorance is dangerous.
SUP boards are very easy in certain parts of Maui. The warning is to use them only in very calm areas including mornings. Maui has both very calm beaches and very rough ones.
2. Don’t leave opened food containers out. We share our island paradise with multitudes of insects and other critters who, like us, thrive in Maui’s warm, tropical climate. Ants, cockroaches, spiders, centipedes, rodents . . . they live here, just as we do, and are simply a fact of life in the tropics. Most homes and visitor accommodations exterminate the premises on a regular basis to keep unwanted creatures under control. But don’t tempt fate by leaving any opened food in your car, room, or on your lanai. That leftover piece of pineapple pizza or bowl of taro chips and guacamole is like ringing a dinner bell for our creepy, crawly neighbors and yelling, “Come and get it!”
things you shouldn't do on Maui: "falling coconuts" warning sign
3. Don’t stand (or sit or park or picnic or nap) directly under a coconut tree loaded with coconuts. Youch. Definitely one of those things you shouldn’t do on Maui. One of those babies can unexpectedly fall and dent your head—or your car—inflicting some serious damage. There are not always signs around to warn you, so pay attention to what is hovering over your head.
things you shouldn't do on Maui: coconuts overhead in a tree
Factually, people getting hit by falling coconuts is less likely than getting mauled by a shark. Almost unheard of. The right precaution is to look at the trees and make sure they are 'prunned' of coconuts if you are concerned...also they fall very directly down so you have to be very close to the tree.
4. Don’t call local residents “Hawaiians.” Those of us who live in Hawaii call ourselves “locals.” A “Hawaiian” is a person who is actually of Native Hawaiian ethnicity. So, for instance, I am a local—I live here. But I am not a Hawaiian. My husband (who is of Native Hawaiian ancestry) IS a Hawaiian—and he’s a local, too. And definitely don’t refer to local residents (or Hawaiians) as “natives.” Yikes. That’s sure to make the locals wince.
Visitors can call anybody anything, nobody really cares. Maui lives for vacationeers.
5. Don’t honk. On Maui, we don’t honk our horn at other drivers, unless we REALLY REALLY REALLY need to get their attention. We might send a friendly “toot” to a pal in a passing car, but we don’t hooooonk at people unless cars or lives are in imminent danger. Honking is sure to get you some “stink eye” (or worse), so don’t honk at other drivers unless you seriously need to get their attention for safety reasons.
Maui is so small people usually travel about 40 MPH on the highways. There are only about 180,000 people living on Maui. People rarely honk and also rarely use their signals. Use Waze to avoid construction delays and such.
things you shouldn't do on maui: a Maui beach
6. Don’t smoke on Maui beaches. Over the years, our beautiful beaches had become virtual ashtrays, littered with thousands of cigarette butts. Smoking is now prohibited on most Maui beaches, punishable by a fine up to $500.
This is pretty dated. Smoking is prohibited in lots of places, beaches included.
7. Don’t turn your back on the ocean. Keep your eyes on the surf. An unexpected wave can knock you down while you’re coming out of the water or stopping to adjust your flippers, injuring you or pulling you into the sea. Pay attention to the ocean so you are not caught off-guard. It’s more powerful than you are. Trust me on that.
Turning your back on the ocean is risky if you are on a rough beach. These are obvious. (i.e., 15 foot waves!).
things you shouldn't do on Maui: shark
8. Don’t swim in murky waters. After heavy rains, stay out of the ocean until the water clears. Avoid swimming near the mouths of rivers or streams or in any murky or brown water areas. These waters attract predators (pictured), and you don’t want to be mistaken for a fish or turtle when this guy is looking for a snack. Other Maui Beach Tips.
Maui is has the four highest shark attacks after three places in Florida. The murky (salt) water as much as a early mornings in a evenings during dusk. The attacks however are rarely fatal.
9. Don’t leave your windows open while you’re gone. Any windows. Whether it’s your car or accommodations. Maui is blessed with tropical weather that can change from moment to moment. So if you run into the grocery store on a sunny day and leave your car windows down (or even worse, leave the top down on your convertible rental car), you could very well come back 10 minutes later and discover that there was a downpour while you were gone and you can now swim in your back seat.
This isn't bad advice but you really do know if you are just leaving the car for five or ten minutes. Generally, everybody drives with their air conditioning on in the day because it is usually about 80 all year around during the day. Convertibles and open windows are rare.
things you shouldn't do on Maui: a loco moco plate
10. Don’t be afraid of “local” food. Yes, we have McDonalds, Burger King, and Starbucks. But why visit Maui and eat the same food you can get at home? There is such a rich variety of food here: tropical fruits and vegetables fresh from the farm; fish caught that morning and on your plate at lunchtime; local fast food eateries, food trucks, mom-and-pop cafes, ethnic foods, and cutting-edge fine dining restaurants with acclaimed chefs. Be adventurous and try some local foods you’ve never tasted before! For dining suggestions, see my Top 20 Favorite Restaurants.
eat where you see middle class locals eating... Never a bad idea.
11. Don’t scuba dive in the morning then head to the top of Mount Haleakala that afternoon. If you are a diver, wait 24 hours after scuba diving before driving up to Haleakala or doing any other high-altitude activity like a helicopter tour or mountainside zip line. Decompression sickness (aka “the bends”) is not a memory you want to take home from your Maui trip.
This is true and the warning is given by the National Park for Haleakala. What isn't given is that you should realize that the drive up and down that mountain has lots of places where you can drive off the road to your death. Drive slow and pull to the designated side areas to let local traffic pass you. The road up and down is more crowded than you might expect because many people work at the observatories and there are lots of visitors year around...and one road.
12. Don’t skimp on the sunscreen, but please use ONLY reef-safe sunscreen. Just keep slathering on the high-SPF sunscreen throughout the day when exploring the island. Due to our proximity to the Equator, Maui’s tropical sun can burn you fast, even more so when you are near the water, and even on a cloudy overcast day. Nothing can ruin a vacation faster than a painful sunburn! However, if you plan on going into the ocean, please be aware that many sunscreens have ingredients that can irreparably harm the coral reefs.
The safe suncreen is remarkably ineffective. You almost cannot find any zinc oxide which doesn't work well anyway. If you bring some old style which works well, you can use it but not on areas exposed to the ocean water.
On January 1, 2021, a new law took effect in Hawaii prohibiting the sale or distribution of sunscreens that contain oxybenzone or octinoxate, two chemicals that have been proven harmful to the marine ecosystems. Hawaii is the first place in the world to ban sunscreens with these chemicals. If you brought sunscreen with you that contains those chemicals, please do not use it here. Instead, choose mineral sunscreens with titanium oxide or zinc oxide, as they are reef-friendly choices.
things you shouldn't do on Maui: monk seal on beach
13. Don’t try to pet a Hawaiian monk seal or ride on the back of a green sea turtle. These are two of the many endangered and threatened species in the Hawaiian islands, and they are protected from harm or harassment by very strict State and Federal laws. So if you are lucky enough to see these wild creatures, enjoy them from a distance, and “look, don’t touch.” This should top everyone’s list of things you shouldn’t do on Maui.
Seeing monk seals is not common at all. But you will see turtles.
And, speaking of wild ocean creatures, DON’T FEED THE FISH. It may sound charming to have a flurry of tropical fish gather ’round for a hand-feeding when you’re snorkeling, but remember this is not an animated Disney movie. There are dangers. First, it’s harmful to the fish and disrupts the natural environmental balance, even affecting the coral reefs, which rely on hungry fish to keep them from being choked by algae. And fish can become aggressive–you can lose a finger (or worse) in the process. Plus, you don’t want to be at the center of a feeding frenzy that draws the attention of the “big boys” (see shark photo above). Please don’t feed the fish.
Don't feed the fish is true. If you have to feed something there are lots of friendly birds that obviously make their living cleaning up after people.
14. Don’t call the continental U.S. “the states.” Hawaii IS one of the states. The 50th state, to be precise. In Hawaii, we refer to the continental U.S. states as “the mainland.” Never “the states.” So statements like “I just arrived from the states” or “They’re having bad weather back in the states” will earn you a look from locals.
This is true:
15. Be cautious about removing any natural items to take as souvenirs. Our island environment, both on land and in the sea, is precious and fragile. Please respect it. It is illegal to take sand (since 2013), dead coral, rocks and other “marine deposits” from the beach. The exceptions are driftwood, shells, beach glass, glass floats (pictured below), and seaweed. It is also illegal to take rocks or minerals from Haleakala National Park; and don’t even think about uprooting an endangered Haleakala Silversword plant to take home — they are protected by Federal law, and theft of a Silversword is a felony crime.
DO relax and enjoy. DON’T stress or rush. And check out my other Practical Do’s and Don’ts for Maui Visitors.
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"a hacker took the records of at least three educators, decoded the HTML source code, and viewed the social security number (SSN) of those specific educators." - Missouri Gov. Mike Parson
https://www.npr.org/2021/10/14/1046124278/missouri-newspaper-security-flaws-hacking-investigation-gov-mike-parson
Video of Parson's press conference :
https://www.stltoday.com/news/local/govt-and-politics/parson-issues-legal-threat-against-post-dispatch-after-database-flaws-exposed/article_93f4d7d6-f792-5b1b-b556-00b5cac23af3.html
Ars Technica Article:
Missouri Gov. Mike Parson today threatened to prosecute and seek civil damages from a St. Louis Post-Dispatch journalist who identified a security flaw that exposed the Social Security numbers of teachers and other school employees, claiming that the journalist is a "hacker" and that the newspaper's reporting was nothing more than a "political vendetta" and "an attempt to embarrass the state and sell headlines for their news outlet." The Republican governor also vowed to hold the Post-Dispatch "accountable" for the supposed crime of helping the state find and fix a security vulnerability that could have harmed teachers.
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2021/10/missouri-gov-calls-journalist-who-found-security-flaw-a-hacker-threatens-to-sue/ +
https://twitter.com/PaulCogan/status/1513190996300992514?s=20&t=__gfYi4XRolZa_2UZT_58w
This is a crafty misinformation attack with the purpose to
do an ad hominin attack on one person, the other, or both.
It compares two people who factually have little in common
but are both divisive people. The division for Rogan has been
established as what he does as an ultra right wing individual
commentator. The dision for Musk is that he is rich, a capitalist,
and therebfore must be evil. No matter what ansewr you have
to this, one or the other, or both are maligned.
If your biggest heroes are Elon Musk and Joe Rogan, you're either not very bright or perfectly propagandized or both.
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The evidence is the number of replies, retweets, likes and so forth
which is truly huge. People taking exception on all the combinations
or agreeing.
The deceit is that these two people can be compared. The motivation is
exactly to get what the author got. A divisive lie.
Even Senator Warnock.
Mitcheo
@MadMitcheo
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What did Elon Musk say that is false?
Anne
@AnnePoppy123
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Well, he tweeted that “kids are essentially immune from the virus,” which isn’t true, and he promised to make and deliver more than a thousand ventilators to hospitals, then actually purchased surplus sleep apnea machines from China instead. Among other things.
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Jeaia
@Jeaia
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I’m not a Rogan fan, I may have seen his show once? But, I am a fan of Elon Musk. I admire and appreciate what he’s doing to help the environment . He’s doing things people said couldn’t be done.
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I wonder how these conservatives would feel if we passed a law making it illegal to teach your kids about religion until they were adults.
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Charles Booker
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I can’t wait to defeat Rand Paul for you.
Good morning.
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Grooming
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The price of crude oil continues to go down, but consumers aren't feeling it like they should at the pump.
We've got to reign in corporate greed.
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The framers feared 'the tyranny of the majority.'
Filibuster proponents often argue that the Constitution’s framers intended to
obstruct decisions by simple majorities. In defense of the filibuster, Lewis & Clark Law School professor
James Huffman wrote in the Hill that James Madison “would likely think it a brilliant innovation for
preventing majority tyranny.” Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell (Ky.) wrote in the New York
Times in 2019 that the filibuster is “central to the order the Constitution sets forth,” citing Madison’s view
that the Senate ought to function as an “additional impediment” and a “complicated check” on the House.
Ornstein says this is a lie. McConnell is lying.
But other than the explicit constitutional requirements for supermajorities,
such as to approve treaties, the framers were foursquare for majority votes.
Alexander Hamilton wrote in Federalist 22 that allowing minorities to overrule
the majority would cause “tedious delays; continual negotiation and intrigue; contemptible
compromises of the public good.” Congressional Research Service scholar Walter J. Oleszek has noted:
“Overall, the Framers generally favored decision-making by simple majority vote.
This view is buttressed by the grant of a vote to the Vice President (Article I, section 3) in
those cases where the Senators are ‘equally divided.’”
This provision makes clear that the Constitution’s drafters expected
that most decisions would be made by majority vote. +
The framers feared 'the tyranny of the majority.'
Filibuster proponents often argue that the Constitution’s framers intended to
obstruct decisions by simple majorities. In defense of the filibuster, Lewis & Clark Law School professor
James Huffman wrote in the Hill that James Madison “would likely think it a brilliant innovation for
preventing majority tyranny.” Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell (Ky.) wrote in the New York
Times in 2019 that the filibuster is “central to the order the Constitution sets forth,” citing Madison’s view
that the Senate ought to function as an “additional impediment” and a “complicated check” on the House.
Ornstein says this is a lie. McConnell is lying.
But other than the explicit constitutional requirements for supermajorities,
such as to approve treaties, the framers were foursquare for majority votes.
Alexander Hamilton wrote in Federalist 22 that allowing minorities to overrule
the majority would cause “tedious delays; continual negotiation and intrigue; contemptible
compromises of the public good.” Congressional Research Service scholar Walter J. Oleszek has noted:
“Overall, the Framers generally favored decision-making by simple majority vote.
This view is buttressed by the grant of a vote to the Vice President (Article I, section 3) in
those cases where the Senators are ‘equally divided.’”
This provision makes clear that the Constitution’s drafters expected
that most decisions would be made by majority vote. +
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Discussion and Evidence
In a PBS interview with Judy Woodruff, Fauci stated recently that, “We are certainly right now in this country out of the pandemic phase.”
While this may be technically true according to certain narrow definitions of “pandemic,” Covid-19 cases are still very present, and even rising, and the disease presents a dangerous threat to millions.
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/dr-fauci-on-why-the-u-s-is-out-of-the-pandemic-phase-2
…
In The Hill, WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus noted that while COVID-19 cases and deaths continue to decline, the world needed to welcome the decline “with some caution.”
“This makes us increasingly blind to patterns of transmission and evolution. But this virus won’t go away just because countries stop looking for it. It’s still spreading, it’s still changing, and it’s still killing,” Ghebreyesus said.
https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/3467372-who-chief-world-is-increasingly-blind-to-covid-transmission-evolution/
. . .
In a UN publication, Ghebreyesus said a recent summit was “a critical reminder that the COVID-19 pandemic is far from over. We’re seeing 1.5 million new cases each day. Large outbreaks are spreading in Asia,” he continued, together with “a new wave sweeping across Europe.”
And some countries are reporting their highest death rates since the start of the pandemic.
https://news.un.org/en/story/2022/04/1115952
. . .
Readers Digest quotes an epidemiologist who answers the question: Is the COVID-19 pandemic over? “No,” says David Dowdy, MD, faculty expert and epidemiologist at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. “I think it’s risky to declare the pandemic over when there is always a risk of another wave.”
https://www.rd.com/article/is-pandemic-over/ +
https://twitter.com/StandForBetter/status/1518732416315101186?s=20&t=0Gk5OvjsLnEwu1Q_nOX7fw
Numerous DIVISIVE LIES by Trump
- April 25, 2022 -
Statement by Donald J. Trump, 45th President of the
United States of America
Melania and I would like to congratulate Elon Musk, who purchased Twitter this
morning. Elon understands the MAGA agenda of free speech, and while he will be
a tough competitor to Devin Nunes and our far superior TRUTH Social, we wish him
well. Many people say Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey conspired with the radical left
maniacs to silence me on his platform while allowing Jimmy Kimmel,
Rosie O'Donnell, and other menopausal women who hate our great followers to stay
on Twitter. This sad action encouraged Nancy Pelosi, AOC, and other crazy
Democrats to steal the election. This tragedy is why many people, including
Marjorie Taylor Greene, saw that Mike Pence was weak and sent text messages to
Mark Meadows asking me to declare martial law. Meadows never passed these
messages to me; otherwise, I would have taken Greene and others' advice and
suspended the fraudulent election. Instead, in 2024 we will Save America by
sending Joe Biden and Nancy Pelosi to the old folks' home where they can play
checkers and board games with AOC, the Unknown Resister clown, and other
radical Democrats who want to destroy our country. +
A group named "Vegan Friendly" has produced a humorous video Entitled "Hell of a Steak" claims that, if diners had to pay the "real" cost of a steak in a restaurant, it would be many, many times more expensive.
View the video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TjaH3HW3jcg
The video claims that the actual cost of land, water and feed for one single cow far outstrips it value as food, and, more important, the practice of eating meat is devastating the environment. The implication is that, by eating a plant based diet, we are taking a big step to protect the environment. While this claim is generally true, it does not tell a complete story about other human activities that are also playing havoc on the environment. The video ends with the statement, "A plant based diet is the single biggest way to reduce your environmental impact and fight global warming."
A plant based diet may not be the biggest single step an individual can take to protect the environment. The newspaper, The Guardian, states:
The literature on the impact of reducing or cutting out meat from your diet varies. Some studies show that choosing vegetarian options would only reduce greenhouse gas emissions per person by 3%. Others show a reduction in emissions per person of 20-30% for halving meat consumption.
“Probably the most important thing to point out is that emissions are often viewed as the only metric of sustainability: they are not. Impacts of farming systems on carbon sequestration, soil acidification, water quality, and broader ecosystem services also need to be well considered,” said Matthew Harrison, systems modelling team leader at the Tasmanian Institute of Agriculture. https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2021/apr/25/going-vegan-can-switching-to-a-plant-based-diet-really-save-the-planet
The BBC states that:
Switching to a plant-based diet can help fight climate change, UN experts have said.
A major report on land use and climate change says the West's high consumption of meat and dairy produce is fuelling global warming. But scientists and officials stopped short of explicitly calling on everyone to become vegan or vegetarian.
They said that more people could be fed using less land if individuals cut down on eating meat. The document, prepared by 107 scientists for the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), says that if land is used more effectively, it can store more of the carbon emitted by humans. https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-49238749
Finally, the news service Vox states that:
A new study published in Science reveals just how important tackling food-related emissions is to mitigating the swiftly accelerating climate crisis. For the first time, the researchers isolated food system emissions and showed that these emissions alone will most likely put the Paris agreement climate targets out of reach. https://www.vox.com/21562639/climate-change-plant-based-diets-science-meat-dairy
In conclusion, a plant-based diet seems unequivocally very friendly to the environment. Adopting such a diet may well be an important step that an individual can take to help the cause. But it may not be the "single biggest thing."
While Putin stated that russia has claimed Ukrainien territory for ever Ukrainian forces have already retaking parts of that claimed territory.
This makes Putins statement factually untrue, because if it would be seen as true claiming land would be as easy as saying: "I once held that territory so that means it will always be mine". That is just not how it works.
And besides this the referenda that have been taken haven't been fair for the ukrainien people.
https://www.cnbc.com/2022/10/05/ukraine-hails-good-news-from-the-front-lines-with-major-gains-in-counteroffensives-.html +
Meeting with Commissioner for Children's Rights Maria Lvova-Belova
This is a meeting after the world had started condemning Putin for killing children and mothers in UKraine. In a day of meetings with world leaders not internet Russian groups.
The lie is that this is propoganda to make Putin looks like he cares about children and mothers in Ukraine or Russia for that matter. +
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Rep. Scott Perry, Republican-PA, blasts the January 6 Committee ahead of a series of public hearings on the attack on the Capitol for wasting millions of taxpayer dollars for a "Soviet-style show trial" that is "an affront to our American republic, and to the order and the rule of law and to justice."
I contend that this not only partisan hyperbole but also and intentional mis-characterizion of the committee's purpose and process.
Perry is chairman of the House Freedom Caucus, a congressional caucus consisting of conservative Republican members of the United States House of Representatives. It is generally considered to be the most conservative bloc within the House Republican Conference. Its members hold socially and fiscally conservative views, and most are supportive of Donald Trump.
Perry was also specifically mentioned by Rep. Liz Cheney during the first hearing as being one of several House Republican lawmakers that contacted the White House in the weeks after Jan. 6, 2021 to seek presidential pardons for their roles in attempting to overturn the presidential election results. He was supoenaed by the committee about to testify about his role in the insurrection which he defied.
A show trial is a public trial in which the judicial authorities have already determined the guilt or innocence of the defendant. The actual trial has as its only goal the presentation of both the accusation and the verdict to the public so they will serve as both an impressive example and a warning to other would-be dissidents or transgressors.
Show trials tend to be retributive rather than corrective and they are also conducted for propagandistic purposes. When aimed at individuals on the basis of protected classes or characteristics, such trials are examples of political persecution.
<a rel="nofollow" class="external free" href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Show_trial">https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Show_trial</a>
Was Benghazi a show trial?
June 28, 2016
The Benghazi Select Committee, a Republican-lead effort that cost about $7 million dollars and held 33 hearings over more than two years into a topic that had already been investigated by seven other Congressional committees. Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton loomed large in the House Republican probe of the deaths of the U.S. ambassador to Libya in the Benghazi attack. Hauled before a GOP panel, she was grilled for eight hours. On Tuesday, an 800-page report landed and House Benghazi Chairman Trey Gowdy, R-SC, denied the probe was ever about Clinton.
In a Sept. 29 [2015]interview with Fox News Channel, House Majority Leader (and then-speaker-in-waiting) McCarthy was pressed by Sean Hannity to name an accomplishment in the Republican-led Congress. He finally said:
"Everybody thought Hillary Clinton was unbeatable, right? But we put together a Benghazi special committee, a select committee. What are her numbers today? They're dropping."
John Oberlin
@OMGno2trump
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When Spotify pays Joe Rogan $100 million dollars they aren't supporting him, they're sponsoring and subsidizing him, his politics, his disinformation and antivaxxers.
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Now that Willie Nelson, Bruce Springsteen, Barbra Streisand, Queen, Paul McCartney, The Rolling Stones, Dave Grohl, Joni Mitchell, & Pearl Jam have joined Neil Young, how do you think Spotify feels about its decision to support Joe Rogan?
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Spotify takes the money from subscribers and pays Joe Rogan to spread misinformation that may harm and kill people. So, subscribers are sponsoring pain and death
No Lie with Brian Tyler Cohen
@NoLieWithBTC
Spotify isn’t just hosting Joe Rogan. They signed a $100 million contract with him to host his content exclusively on their platform.
This isn’t about censorship. It’s about the misinformation that Spotify is financially SPONSORING.
https://twitter.com/raven_valkyrie/status/1487958722508996612?s=20&t=yzot7W-cGu77pGW_klULzw
google search confirming 100M pay to Rogan by Spotify that "depends on performance"
Spotify IS supporting him, even if they say they aren't and say they cannot tell him what to say. They had the option of not signing him if he was going to be evil. +
The bad working conditions and high heat have caused a lot of working migrants to die a by Qatar so called "natural death". UN studies have found that the high temperatures and pour working conditions have a significant impact on the high death rate under migrant workers.
As a tv personal Ronald de Boer supports Qatar and says that the numbers in the news and in particular 6500 workers that died is taken out of context. And supports Qatar in their work around the World Cup preparations.
I believe it is a bad lie to support a dictatorship like Qatar in the harm they do to hard working immigrants.
https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2021/feb/23/revealed-migrant-worker-deaths-qatar-fifa-world-cup-2022
https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2021/08/qatar-failure-to-investigate-migrant-worker-deaths-leaves-families-in-despair/ +
This is a lot of people accusing lies about someone telling the truth with
some factual errors.
The question is what to take to court?
David Rothschild 🇺🇦@DavMicRot·Feb 26I owe a blanket
apology to all of my trolls for failing to properly
footnote every tweet, and I really appreciate them holding me
to account for that. I know how important detailed, technical accountability is for the right-wing/Russians
on social media.8870636
True Scotsman@truescotsman7·Feb 26
Ah yes, every person who calls you out on your misinformation and lies is “Russian.”
You have no shame.
35104David Rothschild 🇺🇦@DavMicRot·Feb 26Sorry,
should have said right-wing and/or Russian trolls ...
You guys are so good at catching technical details, thanks for keeping me on my toes! +
his article is absolutely packed with one after another unsupported
causation lies. It is a great example of propoganda that sounds like
history but the actual facts are not supported. In the first few sentences:
150 million people have left Russia since the 1990’s, and one-third of its area has been clipped off its map.
These people did not jump over a border wall — they formed their own countries and seceded.
One by one, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Estonia, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan,
Latvia, Moldova, Tajikstan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan and (drum roll) Ukraine,
decided that they were not Russians after all. With these
150 million people went 2.6-million square miles of land (5-million sq. kms).
As the war goes on in Ukraine, highlighting the
incapacity of the Russian army,
there are signs that other territories are looking for their moment.
The disintegration of Russia has not stopped.
Far from uniting Russia, Putin’s war is driving it further apart.
At its core stands an impossible notion of Russia —
one that only an army of occupation could pave over.
Russia’s inability to form a nation is in fact long-seeded.
After WWI Large chunks of the empire broke off and established
independent nation-states: Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Finland,
Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, and Ukraine.
As Stalin’s power grew, only those around the Baltic Sea —
Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, and Poland — stayed out of Moscow’s
grasp; the rest were re-conquered.
This is all directly contradicted by an established historian, in the book
"Bloodlands" by Timothy Snyder (of Yale)
https://www.amazon.com/Bloodlands-Timothy-Snyder-audiobook/dp/B07JB4WQVF/r +
Vladimir Putin insisted recently that Russia “is not going to attack anyone.” Since Russia is obviously preparing to invade Ukraine, this is a lie. The evidence to the contrary is:
** CNN reports that Ukraine has warned that Russia has 'almost completed' build-up of invasion forces near its border: https://www.cnn.com/2022/01/18/europe/ukraine-intelligence-russia-military-build-up-intl/index.html
** CNN reports that US intelligence indicates Russia preparing a false flag, agent provocateur operation to justify invasion of Ukraine: https://www.cnn.com/2022/01/14/politics/us-intelligence-russia-false-flag/index.html
** The Hill reports that US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken has recently stated that a Russian attack on Ukraine could be launched with 'very short notice’: https://thehill.com/policy/international/russia/590344-blinken-russian-attack-on-ukraine-could-be-launched-with-very
** The Hill reports that the White House says Russia could launch attack in Ukraine 'at any point’: https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/590206-white-house-says-russia-could-launch-attack-in-ukraine-at-any-point
** The Hill reports that Russia has sent a large number of offensive troops to Belarus and massed them along its border with Ukraine, ostensibly to conduct “war games”: https://thehill.com/policy/defense/590270-russia-sends-troops-to-belarus-for-war-games +
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It just isn't the whole truth, one makes electric vehicles and the other produces oil
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/exxon-knew-about-climate-change-almost-40-years-ago/
They knew about climate change 40 years ago
https://www.vox.com/22429551/climate-change-crisis-exxonmobil-harvard-study
our objective is to wrap yourself in the good phrases while sticking your opponents with the bad ones,” he wrote in 1986.
From the 1970s through the 1990s, most of the company’s PR efforts focused on casting doubt on the scientific consensus that burning fossil fuels was warming the planet. But by the mid-2000s, it was taking a more sophisticated, nuanced approach.
one of 20 companies responsible for one-third of energy-related global carbon emissions since 1965
The metrics and methods used are not reflecting logical thinking but weird rules. +
Short phrase +
https://twitter.com/jeffschlueter1/status/1545502223031042050?s=20&t=KX2JfJZjJRnzj6a4QaMdBw
@sumatraSue
Calling everybody else haters
Showing she is a hater
Someone calling her out on her inconsistency
Who is the hater?
Who is lying?
SumatraSue:
"this is the problem with pathlogical haters like eric - they thini everyone else is a hater too."
"these people are just rank blustering haters. They don't know their azz from a hole in the ground"
"We need to get rid of her and every other POS demonrat that was installed and NOT elected .. and before
anyone says "Republicans too", of course, RINOS are NOT Republicans! You're either a REAL American
patriot..or you're a Demonrat or a RINO POS and you're anti-American!
from @jeffslueter1
"Oh Sue..the Sue who complains "the other side are haters". +
The book How We Sleep by Matthew Walker
is filled with lies that imply causation for what
is only established correlation. As such a loss
of sleep is blamed on many things which can cause
a loss of sleep. As if the loss of sleep is always under
your control. Walker seems to believe that you can just
go to sleep whenever you are told to do it.
The intro shows the fallacy in his reasoning.
Ultimately, asking “Why do we sleep?” was the wrong question.
It implied there was a single function, one holy grail of a reason that
we slept, and we went in search of it. Theories ranged from
the logical (a time for conserving energy),
to the peculiar (an opportunity for eyeball oxygenation),
to the psychoanalytic (a non-conscious state in which we fulfill repressed wishes).
This book will reveal a very different truth: sleep is
infinitely more complex, profoundly more interesting,
and strikingly health-relevant. We sleep for a rich litany of functions,
plural—an abundant constellation of nighttime benefits that service both our brains and our bodies.
There does not seem to be one major organ within the body, or process within the brain,
that isn’t optimally enhanced by sleep (and detrimentally impaired when we don’t get enough).
That we receive such a bounty of health benefits each night should not
Walker, Matthew. Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams (p. 6). Scribner. Kindle Edition.
be surprising. After all, we are awake for two-thirds of our lives,
and we don’t just achieve one useful thing during that stretch of time.
We accomplish myriad undertakings that promote our own well-being and survival.
Why, then, would we expect sleep—and the twenty-five to thirty years,
on average, it takes from our lives—to offer one function only?
Through an explosion of discoveries over the past twenty years,
we have come to realize that evolution did not make a spectacular
blunder in conceiving of sleep. Sleep dispenses a multitude of
health-ensuring benefits, yours to pick up in repeat prescription
every twenty-four hours, should you choose. Within the brain,
sleep enriches a diversity of functions, including our ability
to learn, memorize, and make logical decisions and choices.
Benevolently servicing our psychological health, sleep recalibrates
our emotional brain circuits, allowing us to navigate next-day social and psychological
Walker, Matthew. Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams (pp. 6-7). Scribner. Kindle Edition.
Other questions that can draw out signs of insufficient sleep are:
If you didn’t set an alarm clock, would you sleep past that time?
(If so, you need more sleep than you are giving yourself.)
Do you find yourself at your computer screen reading and then rereading
(and perhaps rereading again) the same sentence?
(This is often a sign of a fatigued, under-slept brain.)
Do you sometimes forget what color the last few traffic lights were while driving?
(Simple distraction is often the cause, but a lack of sleep is another culprit.)
Correlation is Not Causation Lie
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Politico reports that Doug Mastriano, the Republican nominee for governor in Pennsylvania, has argued that America is a Christian nation and that the separation of church and state is a “myth.” https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2022/09/21/most-republicans-support-declaring-the-united-states-a-christian-nation-00057736 The " The Establishment Clause," the first clause in the Bill of Rights, states that “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion.” +
They told Naomi the interview was for a informative interview but it was for an anti vaccine group. +
In 2021, Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman revealed the country's plans to build The Line, a smart linear city that will be constructed vertically, have no roads or cars and run purely on renewable energy. Now, the Saudi government has released image renders of what The Line could look like once it's done. The city was designed to only be 200 meters (656 feet) wide, but 500 meters (1,640 feet) tall and 170 kilometers (105 miles) long. It will house multiple communities encased in a glass facade running along the coast and will eventually be able to accommodate up to 9 million residents.
A dutch design specialist says: "it won't be likely people in modern cities of this day and age will accept a big change like this and move into cities simaler to this futuristic concept" +
This is a case +
Trump’s critics say the once-dominant Trump is losing his mojo.
Trump’s endorsement is sought by lots of Republican primary candidates, many of whom have journeyed to his Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida to pay homage.
On the other hand, the indifferent performance of some Trump-endorsed candidates has fueled doubts about the former president’s political judgement and power.
Former President Trump is taking a fresh gamble with his political capital by endorsing former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin (R).
His endorsement of former Sen. David Perdue (R-Ga.) against incumbent Gov. Brian Kemp (R) in Georgia has not marked any sea-change in the race. A Fox News poll last month showed Kemp leading by 11 points among Republican primary voters.
Similar questions have swirled around Rep. Ted Budd (R-N.C.), whom Trump endorsed in a Senate primary in the Tar Heel State. Former Gov. Pat McCrory (R) appears to have the advantage there.
Trump’s pick in Pennsylvania’s Senate primary, Sean Parnell, suspended his campaign late last year amid a messy custody battle with his estranged wife. And Trump last month rescinded his endorsement of Rep. Mo Brooks (R-Ala.) in Alabama’s Senate primary — which in turn prompted Brooks to speak out about Trump’s calls to overturn the 2020 election.
One former GOP congressman who is critical of Trump argued that “he’s a diminished figure. That’s not to say he’s not dangerous — especially in a Republican primary — but he’s diminished.” The former congressman said that Trump’s interventions tended to be more powerful when they were negative — lambasting a candidate for supposed disloyalty, for example — than when they took the positive shape of an endorsement. +
The Justice Department said in a court filing this week that the search of Mar-a-Lago resulted in the seizure of more than 100 unique documents with classification markings. But in posts on his social media platform, Trump has argued that he had declassified all of the documents in his possession.
"Number one, it was all declassified," he wrote in a post on August 12. "Lucky I Declassified!" he wrote in a post this Wednesday.
Trump's comments about this supposed declassification have been very vague. But conservative writer John Solomon, one of the people Trump named as a representative in his dealings with the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), was more specific in a Fox appearance on August 12. Solomon read a statement, which he said was from Trump's office, claiming that Trump "had a standing order...that documents removed from the Oval Office and taken to the residence were deemed to be declassified the moment he removed them."
This is patently false. Trump and his team have not provided any proof that Trump actually conducted some sort of broad declassification of the documents that ended up at Mar-a-Lago. What's more, eighteen former top Trump administration officials, including two former White House chiefs of staff who spoke on the record, told CNN in August that they never heard of a standing Trump declassification order when they were serving in the administration and that they now believe the claim is false. The former officials used words like "ludicrous," "ridiculous" and "bullsh*t."
"Total nonsense," said one person who served as a senior White House official. "If that's true, where is the order with his signature on it? If that were the case, there would have been tremendous pushback from the Intel Community and DoD, which would almost certainly have become known to Intel and Armed Services Committees on the Hill." +
'Truth Social' is outperforming Twitter
ACCUSATION WITH EVIDENCE: 'Truth Social' CEO and ex-congressman Devin Nunes stumbled with wild speculation and ridiculous claims during a Fox Business Network grilling, all while bad news and ridicule of the Trump-owned social-media platform continue to pile up.
Nunes declared that Trump's new app, 'Truth Social,' was out performing Twitter. He said, “It’s clear that Twitter is kind of a ghost town. There’s not very much activity over at Twitter right now, especially when you compare it to sites like ours.”
The fact is that Twitter is vastly more popular than 'Truth Social.'
There are 217 million monetizable daily active users on Twitter, with 386,658,272
Twitter active users in all. https://www.internetlivestats.com
Every second, on average, around 6,000 tweets are tweeted on Twitter, which corresponds to over 350,000 tweets sent per minute, 500 million tweets per day and around 200 billion tweets per year. https://www.internetlivestats.com
Former President Donald Trump's social media app has so far failed to become a major competitor to established social networks, The Daily Beast reported on Monday. 4-4-22. Truth Social was the 36th most popular social networking app on the Apple App Store. The Beast also notes that downloads of 'Truth Social' have nosedived from a peak of 170,000 per day to fewer than 8,000 and that the app's cadre of daily active users is vanishingly small — just over 500,000. Dating apps Plenty of Fish (17) and BLK – Dating for Black Singles (25) are also outperforming 'Truth Social,' which just barely edged out LGBT dating app Grindr (39). https://theweek.com/donald-trump/1012149/trumps-truth-social-is-the-36th-most-popular-social-networking-app-on-the +
https://twitter.com/StandForBetter/status/1518732416315101186?s=20&t=0Gk5OvjsLnEwu1Q_nOX7fw
Numerous DIVISIVE LIES by Trump
- April 25, 2022 -
Statement by Donald J. Trump, 45th President of the
United States of America
Melania and I would like to congratulate Elon Musk, who purchased Twitter this
morning. Elon understands the MAGA agenda of free speech, and while he will be
a tough competitor to Devin Nunes and our far superior TRUTH Social, we wish him
well. Many people say Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey conspired with the radical left
maniacs to silence me on his platform while allowing Jimmy Kimmel,
Rosie O'Donnell, and other menopausal women who hate our great followers to stay
on Twitter. This sad action encouraged Nancy Pelosi, AOC, and other crazy
Democrats to steal the election. This tragedy is why many people, including
Marjorie Taylor Greene, saw that Mike Pence was weak and sent text messages to
Mark Meadows asking me to declare martial law. Meadows never passed these
messages to me; otherwise, I would have taken Greene and others' advice and
suspended the fraudulent election. Instead, in 2024 we will Save America by
sending Joe Biden and Nancy Pelosi to the old folks' home where they can play
checkers and board games with AOC, the Unknown Resister clown, and other
radical Democrats who want to destroy our country. +
- April 25, 2022 -
Statement by Donald J. Trump, 45th President of the
United States of America
Melania and I would like to congratulate Elon Musk, who purchased Twitter this
morning. Elon understands the MAGA agenda of free speech, and while he will be
a tough competitor to Devin Nunes and our far superior TRUTH Social, we wish him
well. Many people say Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey conspired with the radical left
maniacs to silence me on his platform while allowing Jimmy Kimmel,
Rosie O'Donnell, and other menopausal women who hate our great followers to stay
on Twitter. This sad action encouraged Nancy Pelosi, AOC, and other crazy
Democrats to steal the election. This tragedy is why many people, including
Marjorie Taylor Greene, saw that Mike Pence was weak and sent text messages to
Mark Meadows asking me to declare martial law. Meadows never passed these
messages to me; otherwise, I would have taken Greene and others' advice and
suspended the fraudulent election. Instead, in 2024 we will Save America by
sending Joe Biden and Nancy Pelosi to the old folks' home where they can play
checkers and board games with AOC, the Unknown Resister clown, and other
radical Democrats who want to destroy our country. +
'Truth Social' CEO and ex-congressman Devin Nunes stumbled with wild speculation and ridiculous claims during a Fox Business Network grilling, all while bad news and ridicule of the Trump-owned social-media platform continue to pile up.
Nunes declared that Trump's new app, 'Truth Social,' was out performing Twitter. He said, “It’s clear that Twitter is kind of a ghost town. There’s not very much activity over at Twitter right now, especially when you compare it to sites like ours.”
The fact is that Twitter is vastly more popular than 'Truth Social.'
There are 217 million monetizable daily active users on Twitter, with 386,658,272
Twitter active users in all. https://www.internetlivestats.com
Every second, on average, around 6,000 tweets are tweeted on Twitter, which corresponds to over 350,000 tweets sent per minute, 500 million tweets per day and around 200 billion tweets per year. https://www.internetlivestats.com
Former President Donald Trump's social media app has so far failed to become a major competitor to established social networks, The Daily Beast reported on Monday. 4-4-22. Truth Social was the 36th most popular social networking app on the Apple App Store. The Beast also notes that downloads of 'Truth Social' have nosedived from a peak of 170,000 per day to fewer than 8,000 and that the app's cadre of daily active users is vanishingly small — just over 500,000. Dating apps Plenty of Fish (17) and BLK – Dating for Black Singles (25) are also outperforming 'Truth Social,' which just barely edged out LGBT dating app Grindr (39). +
Truth Social' CEO and ex-congressman Devin Nunes stumbled with wild speculation and ridiculous claims during a Fox Business Network grilling, all while bad news and ridicule of the Trump-owned social-media platform continue to pile up.
Nunes declared that Trump's new app, 'Truth Social,' was out performing Twitter. He said, “It’s clear that Twitter is kind of a ghost town. There’s not very much activity over at Twitter right now, especially when you compare it to sites like ours.”
The fact is that Twitter is vastly more popular than 'Truth Social.'
There are 217 million monetizable daily active users on Twitter, with 386,658,272
Twitter active users in all. https://www.internetlivestats.com
Every second, on average, around 6,000 tweets are tweeted on Twitter, which corresponds to over 350,000 tweets sent per minute, 500 million tweets per day and around 200 billion tweets per year. https://www.internetlivestats.com
Former President Donald Trump's social media app has so far failed to become a major competitor to established social networks, The Daily Beast reported on Monday. 4-4-22. Truth Social was the 36th most popular social networking app on the Apple App Store. The Beast also notes that downloads of 'Truth Social' have nosedived from a peak of 170,000 per day to fewer than 8,000 and that the app's cadre of daily active users is vanishingly small — just over 500,000. Dating apps Plenty of Fish (17) and BLK – Dating for Black Singles (25) are also outperforming 'Truth Social,' which just barely edged out LGBT dating app Grindr (39). https://theweek.com/donald-trump/1012149/trumps-truth-social-is-the-36th-most-popular-social-networking-app-on-the +
At a news conference on Monday, Mr Erdogan said Turkey opposed the Finnish and the Swedish bids to join Nato, describing Sweden as a "hatchery" for terrorist organisations.
"Neither of these countries have a clear, open attitude towards terrorist organisation. How can we trust them?" the Turkish president said.
Turkey accuses the two Nordic nations of harbouring members of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), a group it views as a terrorist organisation, and followers of Fethullah Gulen, who Ankara accuses of orchestrating a 2016 coup attempt.
All member states must agree that a new country can join Nato, therefore Sweden and Finland require Turkey's support in their bid to join the military alliance.
Mr Erdogan said Swedish and Finnish delegations should not bother going to Ankara, Turkey's capital, to convince it to approve their Nato bid.
His government has also pledged to block applications from countries that have imposed sanctions on it.
In 2019, both Nordic nations slapped an arms embargo on Ankara after its incursion into Syria.
Mr Erdogan is indeed doing a bit of arm-twisting in the hopes that Sweden ends its open support of PKK allies. On Monday, Sweden said it would send a delegation to Turkey for Nato-related talks.
Even so, Mr Erdogan might also be looking for a more enticing offer. One possibility is that Ankara is hoping for military concessions from the US, such as re-entry into Washington’s F-35 fighter jet production process or F-16 sales, or a major financial commitment from Europe. +
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These three different comments cannot just be three humans. It is a bot pretending to be a human being and isn't going to tell the whole truth.
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This person has tweeted a lie that says that vaccination ads do not exist and that this is because they would have to tell people about the side effects. There are many reasons this is not true ... including there are ads. And it is not a prescribed drug. +
Here are the partial truths and facts that show how they are misleading.
A machine-readable thumbprint can be easily forged using common software of scans of a thumbprint. Thumbprints of individuals are easily obtained particularly if they appear by the thousands on mailed in envelopes. Societies where thumbprints are used for voting lack access to such software and have moved to digital signatures based on national ID cards as they modernized.
“Machine-readable” is a lie. Fingerprint / Thumbprint scanning for identity has long been known to be susceptible to failure to read by machine without high error rates. It is true that modern scanners can create “machine-readable” likenesses of fingerprints which are indistinguishable from the original fingerprint. But it is NOT TRUE that modern pattern recognition software can reliably read the fingerprint as proving who provided the fingerprint and how.
This method provides an open opportunity for voter fraud by a knowledgeable elite wishing to manipulate vote counts. Years ago, when people did not have signatures or modern cell phones, and could not write, it made sense.
This method does not eliminates many of the problems with ballot signature verification, witness signatures, and unscrupulous ballot harvesting. None of these is true. These are mail in ballot registrations.
Note, significantly, that this policy ONLY APPLIES TO MAIL IN BALLOTS!
It is horribly misleading to say “The state will encrypt the captured thumbprints as alphanumeric values with a one-way hash using a secure key.” Technically the way this works is that the thumbprint as a digital image can be viewed by anybody. It is not hidden from people wishing to have this person’s reputed thumbprint.
A one-way hash using a secure key can mean any number of things depending on whether the hash is cryptographically secure or not and whether the secure key is a private key in a public-private key cryptographically secure key-pair. If not properly done, the security is a sham.
Even then, the new thumbprint on the ballot will NOT have the same hash value as the one on the ballot application! The signatures for the fingerprint will not match. This is guaranteed to fail using any known techniques.
Such shams are common in practice (see my book).
The fact that the signed hash value can be represented as a long string of alphanumeric characters is immaterial. Any digital value, any picture, any information, can be represented this way. That requirement is intended to mislead people that such a string can be verified by a human in a meaningful way. It cannot. You can easily show a different fingerprint with the right hash.
The fact that a law will be prohibited from sharing raw thumbprint data with any other government agency does not mean it will be prohibited from sharing with a company or any private individual. And how much can we trust a prohibition of sharing among government agencies in the first place. The major problem with a fingerprint is that it presumably does not change for the life of the person and once the fingerprint is known for a person by anyone, it is public knowledge.
Add to that the fact that the error rate in proving a particular instance of a fingerprint is uniquely identifying one person, and this proposed system is not at all preserving security or privacy of votes in modern society.
There are ways to do get the right assurances, but they are not being proposed. Why? Precisely because this method, while it may sound good, is even more susceptible to voter fraud by governmental and private entities than existing methods.
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The slogan of the Washington post is: Democracy Dies in Darkness.
But they do put their news behind a paywall so it isn't accessible for everyone. Are they hypocritical or is it acceptabel? +
Also the words by which truth is expressed cannot be separated from their common usages.
They cannot be defined nor redefined ad hoc to make truth mean anything you like.
Each word must do its job properly or it has no meaning at all.
This is not true. Words and word senses have no truth whatsoever. Only predications do.
So if you use every word in a sentence correctly, the sentence can still be the truth or a lie
in different predication contexts. The proper use of a word sense in common usage has no bearing
on whether the sentence is true or a lie and never will. Spoken language never gets truth
perfect. Math can do it, and other pure deductions in a close system of assumed self-evident
truths such as measurements in physics, can do it. Not spoken language. +
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The court filing contradicts the actual vote that took place. It was said that there was "egregious ballot stuffing" Yet, the canidate for which it was against, actually in all the counties the court action was about.
The judge threw this case out (judges threw out all the cases filed by the Trump group). More credence this is a factual lie. +
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This person shows pictures of birds on Twitter and this particular picture is not of any bird that is possible. It looks to a bird expert lie a photoshop of two birds with fur not feathers from a Pomeranian Dog.
A world class expert says
Here is a comment from an expert birder contacted to see if she
could name this kind of owl.
Sheree Daugherty
Sat, Dec 11, 2021, 6:53 PM
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I’d say a cross between an owl and a Pomeranian. Photoshop at it’s finest! +
This person shows pictures of birds on Twitter and this particular picture is not of any bird that is possible. It looks to a bird expert lie a photoshop of two birds with fur not feathers from a Pomeranian Dog.
A world class expert says
Here is a comment from an expert birder contacted to see if she
could name this kind of owl.
Sheree Daugherty
Sat, Dec 11, 2021, 6:53 PM
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I’d say a cross between an owl and a Pomeranian. Photoshop at it’s finest! +
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Ron Johnson lied about a pledge he had signed, and a commenter on Twitter responded with a satirical lie. The question is whether the commenter was lying or telling the truth. I argue that the commenter was lying, but in this case the lie was a good satirical remark. A good lie.
BREAKING: Wisconsin GOP Sen. Ron Johnson, one of former President Trump’s most vocal supporters, says he will seek reelection. Johnson had pledged not to run for a third time, but he, says circumstances have changed now that Democrats control the Senate.
https://twitter.com/AP/status/1480185599114027010?s=20
This is the satirical response.
Chris America
@Chris_America
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22h
Replying to
@AP
He went back on his word? Shocking.
https://twitter.com/Chris_America/status/1480191953509789697?s=20 +
Ron Johnson lied about a pledge he had signed, and a commenter on Twitter responded with a satirical lie. The question is whether the commenter was lying or telling the truth. I argue that the commenter was lying, but in this case the lie was a good satirical remark. A good lie.
BREAKING: Wisconsin GOP Sen. Ron Johnson, one of former President Trump’s most vocal supporters, says he will seek reelection. Johnson had pledged not to run for a third time, but he, says circumstances have changed now that Democrats control the Senate.
https://twitter.com/AP/status/1480185599114027010?s=20
This is the satirical response.
Chris America
@Chris_America
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22h
Replying to
@AP
He went back on his word? Shocking.
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ACCUSATION WITH EVIDENCE: 'Truth Social' CEO and ex-congressman Devin Nunes stumbled with wild speculation and ridiculous claims during a Fox Business Network grilling, all while bad news and ridicule of the Trump-owned social-media platform continue to pile up.
Nunes declared that Trump's new app, 'Truth Social,' was out performing Twitter. He said, “It’s clear that Twitter is kind of a ghost town. There’s not very much activity over at Twitter right now, especially when you compare it to sites like ours.”
The fact is that Twitter is vastly more popular than 'Truth Social.'
There are 217 million monetizable daily active users on Twitter, with 386,658,272
Twitter active users in all. https://www.internetlivestats.com
Every second, on average, around 6,000 tweets are tweeted on Twitter, which corresponds to over 350,000 tweets sent per minute, 500 million tweets per day and around 200 billion tweets per year. https://www.internetlivestats.com
Former President Donald Trump's social media app has so far failed to become a major competitor to established social networks, The Daily Beast reported on Monday. 4-4-22. Truth Social was the 36th most popular social networking app on the Apple App Store. The Beast also notes that downloads of 'Truth Social' have nosedived from a peak of 170,000 per day to fewer than 8,000 and that the app's cadre of daily active users is vanishingly small — just over 500,000. Dating apps Plenty of Fish (17) and BLK – Dating for Black Singles (25) are also outperforming 'Truth Social,' which just barely edged out LGBT dating app Grindr (39). +
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Twitter introduced a new service with a $36/yr subscription which promised ad free use of Twitter. It turns out, when you buy the subscription they did not mean ad free. The ads are all still there. What they meant was that a "article" that is linked on twitter would be ad free IF they had a deal with the publisher of that article to take payment from Twitter if the publisher would provide that article ad free. BUT the publisher could require a subscription to be ad free with the agreement with Twitter. In other words, they could put up a paywall against any links from Twitter in their agreement to be ad free. +
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Rumors are lies. This slide looks at principles for causing rumors
to go viral. One is a slogan.
#Disinformation 101 - helping you to understand and recognize cognitive attacks and attempts to manipulate you from an offensive perspective. The success of such attacks heavily depends on you NOT understanding and recognizing them.
Rumors #18
Rand Waltzman
@cogsec
The slogan type rumor (WWII rumor in England.. "England will fight to the last Frenchman")
is especially adapted to summarizing opinions or attitudes that are
already widely accepted. Slogan type rumors will gain acceptance
only when the ground has been prepared for them by narrative type
rumors or by other forms of propaganda.
Analysis of the motivation in this slogan rumor lie: We English
should not be fighting for the French. They aren't worth it.
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